The author went on further to disentangle the strands of the cultural history of crying. He describes an example where a young woman falls on the ground weeping on her father’s feet begging for his forgiveness, a feat which few people nowadays would find it as appropriate and heartwarming as a group at an eighteenth-century British inn might have. True. I certainly would feel uncomfortable witnessing such histrionic scene. However, I could not help associating with such scene, some epic historical instances of discredited public figures offering official apology and remorse either sincerely just for the sake of it or calculatedly as a damage control mechanism. Hmm … The politics of tears or politicization of weepings. Look this term up: the politicization of science. By the same token, the politicization of weepings involves an element of “interest group/party” and an element of “influence the outcome” …