Posted on 03/23/2017 11:48:04 AM PDT by MNDude
1.) A family member or close friend just died.
2.) National tragedy.
3.) They are watching Ol' Yeller.
4.) Prayer
And there you go.
If you don’t get a little optically moist when Old Yeller gets put down then you ain’t human.
I, the Lord of Sea and Sky...
I break down weeping whenever we sing this at church. For many reasons to most being the power of the message in the song. I have never been able to sing it without crying.
Me, too. That is deeply beautiful and touching.
I just watched it and the tears kept rolling down my face.
I think I only cried once after my son was killed in combat. And that was when I was accused of not caring because I wasn't showing emotion. That pushed me over the edge. I had to relieve some of that extreme agony and the shock and horror. I did get teary-eyed at a later funeral of a very young Marine way out in a small town in the western part of Virginia. They were singing Amazing Grace. Too much.
You are entitled to your opinion.
But, but crying shows how sensitive, how compassionate, how righteous, how - well darn it - just how overall superior in every way they are, especially to you.....
Beck is a whack-a-doodle!
That said, I’m not a crier, either. Once in a great while I have a meltdown, but always in private. Crying in the shower can be VERY cathartic. I shed tears and sniffle at funerals and weddings and there are some hymns I can’t make it through without tearing up. ;)
I cry when my pets die.
I must have too much testosterone or something; I find bawling in public by men VERY unbecoming, but with a few exceptions for tragic and/or emergency situations. If you don’t cry then - you’re not human.
“3) They are watching Ol’ Yeller.”
‘Where The Red Fern Grows’ slays me, every time. *SNIF*
Men are back! With TRUMP, yes, men are back! It’s allowed again to hold it together, for men.
They are our heroes, protectors and defenders, our fathers and not our pets, our brothers and not our parakeets, our natural leaders and not step-and-fetch-it maidens.
Beck is a bad example because he is admittedly bipolar, severely ADD, and obviously in an often precarious mental state. He is probably a genius, but is battling the emotional hurdles that some times goes with some men who are geniuses.
Throw in his schizophrenic religious switches and impact of different spiritual ideologies, from born Catholic to Mormon, to free spirit, and this is what you get. Tears... due to a disability, imho.
It takes a big man to cry.
And it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
"Aw, it’s all right, Brain! No one can resist a terrifically manipulative contrivance with swelling music… except maybe G. Gordon Liddy." -Pinky
I am so sorry for your loss, and your mistreatment.
The occasional song in church or movie ending can bring a tear to my eye, but I am careful not to let others see.
Really crying? When I saw my BIL at my mother’s funeral (not sure why my BIL set me off) and when I rounded a curve and saw the Marine honor guard lined up at the cemetery for my father’s burial (in my defense, it set my wife and MIL off, and they sort of set me off).
Watching the end of Field of Dreams (when Ray plays catch with his dad) shortly after I lost my father was pretty tough.
Yep, Yours is the POST OF THE THREAD.
Men who have heart trouble are often criers, or following heart surgery. A cardiac surgeon told me decades ago that was quite common after bypasses, for example.
Certainly age has its sentimental effects on a man, and as you eluded they are often on medications that may well have their own side effects.
Beck is likely on plenty of meds, miss marmelstein, and is admittedly bipolar and severely ADD. He said as much on his own program, back when he was on FOX, I believe was how long ago I heard him say so.
Yes, Beck’s basically crazy.
My grandfather cried in old age (82). He enlisted in WWI as a 15 year old, was put behind lines when his commander suspected his faked age and made him peel potatoes! He was a professional boxer, numbers runner, bar owner and finally an electrician for the Port Authority of NYC. Quite a life but he must have had regrets in old age - as well as facing mortality - and that made him sentimental. But before his 80s, I never saw him shed a tear.
I am OK with a moment of mistiness. Or some tears when a parent/offspring/spouse passes on. But otherwise no.
My husband was pretty stoic when both his grandmother and his father died. But when our dogs died, especially after Zeus died, he did cry. Not sobs, mind you, but tears. That didn’t bother me as pets are bonded to us in unique ways.
“What is this salty discharge?”
I have to say I have never dealt with a crying man, and I would not want to.
I have had men in my life tear up over major events of course, but not tearing up or crying for effect that some men do now. When I see a politician tear up because someone has said something politically incorrect or other nonsense I know it is a ploy and it is an actor thing, not real.
I have to say though, women in my life rarely cry either- including me. If I feel the urge to cry I go cry to myself or a critter, not to make an impression on anyone else.
If I were to happen upon a man crying in private I would not think any less of him. If he is crying in front of others/in public that is a different deal.
Private crying is a real emotional thing but if you go public with it then you are doing it for attention, man or woman. Just my 2 cents.
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