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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Amy J who wrote (181998)	2/2/2004 2:50:44 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574612

Hi Tejek, The window closed while I was still editing. I had just deleted the middle part of the sentence and hit submit to see where I was at with it, but boom the window closed. RE: "the guys just are expected to cope. It amazes me but adults expect boys will be okay when they get an emotional body blow or a crisis. That BS is just not true!" I completely agree with you on some people's extreme bias against men and boys on this issue. It's truly amazing. Guys should be given no less time or space when it comes to dealing with emotional stuff. I think the problem with boys and emotions is that we are told not to have them. I am telling you, in my life, I have never seen a boy or man cry like that kid was crying the other day. To me, he was crying the way a girl cries. And yet, the truth is boys are humans and have the same range of emotions as girls. Today, I was watching the pre game for the Super Bowl. They had on quarterbacks whose kids have been stricken with serious diseases. One of them had a kid that recently had come down with a rare disease. The disease was extremely virulent and killed his boy within 72 hours. I think the quarterback was Boomer or Eiasen. In any case, this guy wept unabashedly for the loss of his son. I was at the gym and it was all I could do to keep from breaking down. Maybe when kids see guys like macho football players cry in public, then maybe they will give themselves permission to cry. When they see its okay to be real, maybe then they can loosen up. From the ages of 13 to 25, I cried so infrequently that I could no longer do it and had to relearn how in acting classes. I think that's pretty lame and a sad commentary on how we treat our male children! ted