>>>>>Why IS it ok for men to tell women to 'Smile' all the time, yet rarely tell other men that? Is every man out there somehow the arbiter of women's attitudes?
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>>>>FWIW, we also need to stop telling our sons that "big boys don't cry." Same problem, actually.
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>>>I think you're stuck in a bit of a time-warp. "Big boys" are crying all over the place.
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>>>Athletes, soldiers, politicians, news anchors, Darth Vader...
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>>>This society has been telling little boys that it's ok to cry for a couple decades and we're seeing the results. Grown men are publicly blubbering like babies.
>>>http://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/top-10-shameless-male-crying-displays.html
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>>Smells like a blunt right wing statment, usually made by men they think the're (or want to be) a rolemodel of a 'real men'.
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>Sounds like someone who cannot separate their politics from life. ;)
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>>I doubt men are crying more than a couple of decades ago, but rather that society has changed in the way we'd like to record videos of everything.
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>The proof IS the video. Public figures engage in and reflect what's acceptable to society.

A single video is the proof of your claim?? Very strange definition of the word proof if you ask me.

>When the Speaker of the House freely cryo in public and on camera, we have clearly experienced a sea change in acceptability.

You inferred that we are growing crying men by telling then its ok to cry when they were a little boy.
I've seen sportsmen crying on TV 30 years ago when they won or lost a race or game. I've seen men being overwhelmed by their emotions now and in the past.
And how come there are examples of politicians that now are 70 years old being an example of crying in public. Are you saying that they have been told that to cry is OK more than 2 generations years ago?

Society has changed alright... it would be bad if it didn't, but to say that we are growing crying men, is IMO typical for right wings self righteous nonsense.