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

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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.

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