You can cry at movies and still hold the line when it matters. Soft and strong live on the same street.

Feeling things easily and standing firm get treated as opposites, especially in how people talk about boys and men. The two are unrelated. Being easily moved says nothing about whether you will hold a position when holding it costs you something, and some of the steadiest people are the ones who cry at films.

Stop editing out whichever half you assume is unwelcome in a given room. Let people see both, since the mixture is the accurate picture. And notice who treats softness as proof of weakness, because that tells you more about them than about you.