John Boehner cried on Election Night. He cried on 60 Minutes. And he's not the only one bawling. From Glenn Beck to Tim Tebow, famous men have reduced themselves to blubbering children. The limelight has become a reason to, rather than a reason not to, cry. Read my article @ the American Spectator that gawks at how America has gone from a society that cringes at grown men crying to one that rewards it--all in my lifetime.

It’s the chickification of America man. Manliness is discouraged in this society. I mean, look at the wimp that masquerades as our President.

The powers that be, through the schools and the greater society in general, are working to take the boy out of boys, thus the man out of men.

I believe related to this is the matter of toughness and people just aren’t as tough as they once were. Physically, mentally or, as the case may be, emotionally.

Some in American society have for the last 40 years worked to convince all of us to be more caring and sensitive and it’s worked. So the rough and tumble, can do, blue collar, working class with an acute sense of survival and common sense has, for the most part, morphed into the liberal’s dream – malleable, over-sensitized zombies that go along with social experimentation in the military and many of our core services and will not bend to defend themselves against economic or govermental tyranny.

What I find funny is how many modern woman wonder were the real men have gone. And then expect their men to cry openly to show their sensitivity. Whacked.

OK, I cried many times the year after my mother died. And I cried when I saw "The Wrestler". But most of the time, I agree with you and behave accordingly.

Excuse me, I have something in my eye...

Everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry...

I've cried in public twice in my life. When my Father passed and when, after a horrendous accident where my truck was T-boned, in the hospital when it was confirmed that my kids were ok.

Other than that, I guess I don't give a f'k enough about anything else to get that emotional.

Except maybe sometimes when the Absolut runs out.

"I mean, look at the wimp that masquerades as our President."

Change that to past tense and you describe perfectly George W(orst president ever) Bush, who cried several times in front of the media. In fact both Bush presidents have done it.

"The powers that be, through the schools and the greater society in general, are working to take the boy out of boys, thus the man out of men."

What are you blabbering about?! "The powers that be"... HA!

"What I find funny is how many modern woman wonder were the real men have gone."

Who? Really? Citation please?

"...that go along with social experimentation in the military and many of our core services and will not bend to defend themselves against economic or govermental tyranny."

English son, use it. lrn2grammar

"I've cried in public twice in my life."

Wow, billy bada$$ over here.

It really just sounds like you all are stuck living in the 50s trying to relive your maladaptive authoritarian fathers' mistakes, ignorance, and bullheadedness. Even your champion, Reagan, has done it. I sure love what you wrote 3 years ago asdf, probably one of the few time I've seen you being real:
Conservatism can start to make a come back with some of its alleged leaders growing sets of gonads and taking firm Reaganesque stands on what they do and what they believe.

Not that he's conservative, but Presidente El Busho is an embarrassing example of how faux conservative / Republicans are giving the movement and the party a bad name. He tucks and runs everytime there's a controversy, a non-issue or the Dems say boo.
Posted by: asdf on March 16, 2007 06:23 AM

http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2007/reagans_crying.html

But even in that article, which flat out says, "It's true that Reagan didn't live up to everything he promised: he campaigned on smaller government, fiscal discipline and religious values, while his presidency brought us a larger government and a soaring deficit."

Yet he is still the conservative hero. I am now going to bang my head on a wall until I reach your level of reasoning on this.

Hey future ex pat,not sure but were you for cap and trade? How bout the new health care plan? If so can you at least understand why othr disagree. Most do? Do you believe that they weren't given the chance to realize that. Are you a socialist?

Yes, our current President is a wimp. Having been tutored in radical Leftism his whole life and manipulated by stronger flawed adults, he has no thoughts of his own and has no real commitment to anything other than what those people who have elevated him expect and those who surround regularly tell him to do. He makes zero decisions on his own because he neither has the intelligence nor the intestinal fortitude to do so. And when the going gets tough, he gets out of town and goes on vacation.

Bush? Yeah. Not one of my favorites. So what's your point? I meant what I said. But if you want to compare the gonads and the decisiveness of our two last Presidents, Bush wins hands down. He did not operate exclusively on rightist ideology (which was a big part of the problem) and was decisive for good or bad many times at the risk of what little popularity he had. Obama would never go there. In fact, he’s a bully who will tuck, run and bow to those he considers his superiors.

The left would always prefer a malleable Obama type to a harder to push over Bush type. They can’t win in their quest to control things and shape this country into a bigger more collective Venezuela if they encounter resistance from stronger people. This is why the left for years has been chipping away at the social fabric of the United States – religion, marriage, gender – the pillars of our once great society. And when the foundations are destroyed, the edifice falls. But that’s the point.

@grady - I never formed a strong opinion on cap and trade, I imagine however it gets set up, some corporations will use loopholes and lawyers to get around regulations anyway, like they always do. The health care bill failed in my eyes because it failed to handle the major problem, which is rising costs. This now looks like collusion between doctors-insurance agencies-and the feds to increase all their bottom lines by guaranteeing coverage without controlling costs. There is no reason any of those three entities would want to control costs though.

"Most people" don't understand the basic concepts of any major government movement, and regurgitate talking points fed to them by corporations.

And I am a socialist by action, not necessarily by philosophy. As we all pay into things like medicare or social security, we are actively participating in socialist behavior. It is possible to stop contributions and forfeit payout, but there in lies salvation from socialism. This page's main vocalist about how terrible socialists are is asdf, let's see if its a do as I say, not as I do situation.

ASDF, do you make contributions to social security from your paychecks? Do you plan on receiving your entitlements when you retire?

"religion, marriage, gender – the pillars of our once great society."

You DO know how and why this country was started... right? Religion. Specifically, freedom of religion. Freedom from government dictating religion. When the government reaches its hand into religion to begin to define what marriage is, it goes against "the pillars of our once great society."

"he has no thoughts of his own and has no real commitment to anything other than what those people who have elevated him expect and those who surround regularly tell him to do. He makes zero decisions on his own because he neither has the intelligence nor the intestinal fortitude to do so. And when the going gets tough, he gets out of town and goes on vacation."

I could really say the same of W. Where was Bush when he got the memo that bin laden was about to attack? Crawford Ranch, wearing wrangler jeans and a cowboy hat. As well, the GOP has consistently been playing with puppets as visible with Powell, Bush, and Palin. These people are at this point incapable of independent thought. Powell ignored HIS OWN doctrine when entering the war. Bush followed Rumsfeld (The architect) and Cheny's (the enforcer) manipulations of truth when he made any major decisions. Palin, wow, where does one start. Seriously just listen to her for 5 minutes and its clear she actually knows anything of what she's speaking on.

Politics as usual.

"And I am a socialist by action, not necessarily by philosophy. As we all pay into things like medicare or social security, we are actively participating in socialist behavior."

The difference is that you demonstrate that you believe government should control and extort things from working productive people (especially those evil rich) for what they deem the common good. I don't. But, as an obligation of living in this temporarily great country, I and many other do what needs to done to maintain in the face of an ever growing and ever restrictive government.

You seem to think that we have a choice not to follow certain rules of coercion. But unless one is Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Charlie Rangel or some other high ranking liberal tax cheat of that ilk, try not paying taxes (e.g. social security TAX) and see what happens. So it's very unclear where you're going with this.

Now, as I am coerced by my government, starting primary before WWII, to pay into social programs conceived and implemented by statists then and ever since, what's your point?

btw - shutting down a National Football League game in Philly last night because of 11 inches of snow??

Can you say 'wimpification'? Another example of the Chick factor on men.