Thanks, Obama, For Confirming That It's Totally Fine For Powerful Men To Cry

[Stellar]

Finally, in 2016, crying is not a sign of weakness.

Real men don’t cry. Except, of course, they do. All the time. And it’s OK. Crying, especially for guys, is having a moment.
While delivering an impassioned speech this week about new gun control measures, President Barack Obama cried. His tears came as he spoke about the first-graders -- “every time I think about those kids it gets me mad” -- who were shot dead in Newtown, Connecticut, in the infamous 2012 mass shooting.
His critics pounced, of course. But the tack most of the haters took is telling. Instead of ripping apart Obama for the simple act of crying, calling him “weak” or questioning his masculinity -- real things people still actually say and maybe believe about men who cry -- they accused the president of faking it. Of shedding crocodile tears.
It says a lot about the state of weeping in 2016 that the majority of the president's most virulent haters didn't call him out for actually crying.

More: HuffPo

[virgogal]

1. Boehner beat Obama to it and lots of DUers made fun of him for crying.

[Stellar]

3. It's Boehner second nature...it's what he does best. nt

[Cha]

6. Oh Good Grief.. freaking Boner was crying on the Golf Channel.. Pres Obama is crying about Dead

children.

Do you see the difference?

boner didn't beat the President at anything.

[guillaumeb]

2. Fine for all men to cry. A great emotional release.

From a man.

[Stellar]

4. Its called being human, esp when 20 kids are slaughtered...

in cold blood.

[Kath1]

5. Yes, it is.

[Iliyah]

7. The type of weapon used on them just blew their little bodies to pieces.

I will never forget that and the others slaughtered. Mass killings need to stop. Police towards minors as well. As citizens of the United States of America there need to be more focus gun regulations. Will it stop killings, probably not, but it would stop a lot of them.

[Stellar]

9. I try not to think of that...it tears me apart!

[guillaumeb]

13. What is interesting from my point of view,

is that right wing responses to President Obama range from criticism of him as unemotional to criticism of him as being too emotional. Nothing to do with racism, or a reflexive inability to work with Democrats, or anything like that.

[Stellar]

14. aw, those a**holes are just keeping their promise...

(although it's a little late), still trying to make the President one term, they want to double down on their promise to the end.

[Cha]

8. Thank you for this, Stellar.. who wouldn't cry at all the deaths by gun violence including all

the children at Sandy Hook?

The first poster has no clue the difference between boner crying on the golf channel and President Obama crying over the massacre of the Sandy Hook children.. babies really.

Pisses me off.

[Stellar]

10. All I can do is SMH! NT

[Stellar]

11. My President loves kids...

[Iliyah]

12. President Obama loves the United States of America, plus

the world.

[treestar]

15. I've seen that accusation of faking it

which makes about zero sense. Who would not be upset about that shooting, especially after having met the parents and siblings as he did? Right wingers are awful.