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Showing Original Post only (View all)People who cry at movies are not "real men"? [View all]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1090551Sometimes 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
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 wouldnt say that, just some people deal with stuff differently, for some it may be a past trauma
loli phabay
Aug 2012
#24
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
For the life of me, I can't stop thinking of how to make a Fred Willard joke.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#25