>the liberal media has turned us all into panzies.

Are you suggesting that it's bad to feel and express strong emotion?

People (_not_ just women, thank you...) cry at movies (or books) because they get emotionally involved with the characters. I personally see nothing wrong with getting strongly involved in fictions, as long as we can ultimately distinguish between fiction and reality. To me it's a way of broadening our experience. Getting strongly emotionally involved with a story can radically change the way you understand yourself and the world around you. I don't understand why we should hold ourselves back from an experience that has the potential to change us and allow us to learn and grow.

As for gay men crying when MA legalized marriage... imagine that for years you were marginalized, forbidden from legally solemnizing your relationship with the person you loved, and treated as not worthy of enjoying equal rights with the rest of the population. When you were finally allowed those equal rights and some measure of acceptance and recognition, wouldn't you feel strongly too? (I do not intend to get into an argument here about whether it was "morally" right for gay marriage to be legalized in Massachusetts, by the way. I think it's a wonderful thing, and I'm sure that there are some people on the board who disagree with me, but I've had this sort of discussion a million times and quite frankly I'm getting tired of it. I'm just trying to point out why people might have been crying.)


~Chrysanthemum~