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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 02:45 AM Aug 2012

People who cry at movies are not "real men"? [View all]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1090551

Sometimes much can be gleaned from a single sentence. It can reveal the true mindset that lurks beneath all the poses.

This Group addresses in many ways what it means to be a man.

Some have attacked its existence, claiming that "real men" don't need to whine.
Implications that there is an element of woman hating or mother-seeking or inability to fight or make love.

All point to one thing. A deep-set insecurity about one's own manhood based on a false view of what it means to be a man.

And so, I leave you with these questions.

Did you ever cry during a movie and do you feel, like the OP linked above, that it undermines your manhood?

Or is actually this clinging to worn out ideas of manliness that is a central cause for some of the problems that exist for men, and indeed for women as we try to achieve a better balance and learn from each other?
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I first saw The Diary of Anne Frank on TV during the spring of my sophomore year ... radicalliberal Aug 2012 #1
I'll tell you, if you go through Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum, in Jerusalem and you DON'T cry Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #3
Ah, the dude spelled "bawls", "balls". Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #2
i only cry during bad movies as i think of the time i lost ie titanic loli phabay Aug 2012 #4
I'm not much for emotions. Upton Aug 2012 #5
Tears contain stress hormones. redqueen Aug 2012 #6
I could never be accused of not being a man, and I can not be accused of not being manly Broderick Aug 2012 #7
I've cried during several films ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2012 #8
Hell, I cry at movies all the time... MicaelS Aug 2012 #9
Wait, did I miss something? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2012 #10
Yup.... MicaelS Aug 2012 #11
How odd. Behind the Aegis Aug 2012 #14
i wouldnt say that, just some people deal with stuff differently, for some it may be a past trauma loli phabay Aug 2012 #24
Oh, I saw that ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2012 #15
He truly is a Prince of Projection.... opiate69 Aug 2012 #12
Maybe he just hates dic....tionaries. Nt Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #17
I never cry at movies DavidDvorkin Aug 2012 #13
Dude, I would blubber like a baby at the right scene. Denninmi Aug 2012 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author eek MD Aug 2012 #18
Not really my thing 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #19
For years, I thought Bambi was a girl teenagebambam Aug 2012 #20
I have cried at movies, Broken_Hero Aug 2012 #21
Yes. For me, it's the Nicholas Cage movie "Family man". lumberjack_jeff Aug 2012 #22
Okay, Jeff, I think I watched that movie on an airplane many years ago, so I may not be remembering Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #28
Yup. That's the one. lumberjack_jeff Aug 2012 #29
You can't say Nick Cage is a bad actor. Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #30
Gone. Poof. Never existed. lumberjack_jeff Aug 2012 #31
seriously though im not a crier, i dont think ive ever cried at a movie loli phabay Aug 2012 #23
For the life of me, I can't stop thinking of how to make a Fred Willard joke. Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #25
lol isnt that the guy caught pulling the pudding in the theatre. loli phabay Aug 2012 #26
To be fair to Fred Willard, he handled it with his usual aplomb. Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #27
I cried at the end of Toy Story 3... Sick of the GOP Aug 2012 #32
I generally only cry during baseball movies... jorno67 Aug 2012 #33
I cry at movies all the time, and... TreasonousBastard Aug 2012 #34
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