Do You Cry?

How is calling something blue-eyed-soul or whatever heckling? Might have been 50 years ago?

The blues is just a poor black guy playing jazz. Jazz is just a rich white guy playing the blues. Or something, right?
 
I can't remember the last time I cried in public, unless you count that time I ate a couple of peppers that NUKED me. I wasn't emotionally upset but the tears were coming no matter what from that. Even after the burn started settling I still felt some of it for like an hour. Rough.

Sometimes something I watch can get me briefly teary-eyed, which is the closest thing I've had to a crying experience in adult memory. Those are exceptional.
 
I'm glad you all liked my story! I was mortified. I definitely didn't heckle the dude I was sitting cross legged next to him. The party was that lame. He was cool, though. Wish I remember his name. It's the room gasping that freaked me out like, look if you're gonna be a bunch of gentrifiers you have to make fun of yourself and that genre name wasn't even that, just sounded like it. I say a lot of things that to some people just sound like the kind of something that might just put you off. When it wasn't just happening to me but also I noticed when it happened to others, and when I caught myself when I did it to others, it all clicked. We can talk about it later, but I've been trying to tell you all for years.

The last time I really cried was this year. Movies get me, particularly acts of heroism. And crowds cheering can get me, it's a thing. Listen to Dua Lipa's "New Rules" but the live version (in I think San Diego?) and whenever the crowds cheering and she's replying I get chills and can almost cry. But not really. Media is not of a trigger to let go like that.

But this year I did cry. I was halfway through a silent meditation bootcamp, like 5 days in. I hadn't looked directly at or talked to anyone in days. I was thinking about how sad I was that my uncle died. I lost it. He died like 2 years before that. Really miss him. My aunt died this year. Haven't cried. Maybe if I spend 5 days alone with no computer.
 
I teared up on an airplane a couple of years ago listening to music from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack
 
Lexicus said:
I teared up on an airplane a couple of years ago listening to music from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack
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People near you thinking you're on your way back from a funeral. LOTR is what got me on my first post in this thread.
 
I lost it a bit when they armed the boys in Helm's Deep.
 
Synsensa said:
Gollum's Song is art.
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I'm really corny, the teary ones for me are Breaking of the Fellowship, Battle of the Pelennor, Tales That Really Matter and sometimes Last March of the Ents.

I do really like Gollum's song but it ain't that emotional for me.
The Pelennor really gets me every time, the initial notes kinda kick in and I can hear Eowyn saying "courage Merry...courage for our friends" and I lose it a little.
 
Lexicus said:
I'm really corny, the teary ones for me are Breaking of the Fellowship, Battle of the Pelennor, Tales That Really Matter and sometimes Last March of the Ents.

I do really like Gollum's song but it ain't that emotional for me
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I relate to being a corrupted, evil, disgusting little hobbit so I guess it hit close to home for me. :smug:
 
I cried on Titanic , LOTR got to me too (music coupled with an awesome story), but I didn't cried. On Titanic however I did. - I get very emotional and involved watching romantic movies -. The moment when Rose dropped the "Heart of the ocean" into the ... umm well ocean :D was the most emotional for me. I remember also crying on the Lion King as a kid (much like the whole cinema - it was a school trip to the movies ;))
 
I cried during the Elmo movie when I was like 8.
 
AdamCrock said:
I cried on Titanic , LOTR got to me too (music coupled with an awesome story), but I didn't cried. On Titanic however I did. - I get very emotional and involved watching romantic movies -. The moment when Rose dropped the "Heart of the ocean" into the ... umm well ocean :D was the most emotional for me. I remember also crying on the Lion King as a kid (much like the whole cinema - it was a school trip to the movies ;))
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I get really moved after she dies, and she goes back to the Titanic and all the good people who died are there, then she finally reaches Jack ... I suddenly start imagining that they're on that ship reliving the happy moments (all of the people) forever. Yes, I'm crying right now :P
 
Moulin Rouge got me the first time but the second time I was like this guy and this romance sucks.
 
MaryKB said:
My current understanding is that toxic masculinity is about an attack on and suppression of femininity. It's a key foundational part of the war on women. It's about emphasizing the strength of "masculine" traits while at the same time putting down those assigned as "feminine." For example, you've got to be tough, athletic, physically and emotionally "strong" (meaning you don't complain, like ever), and you can't be empathic, nurturing, expressive of your feelings, etc.

And how you really see this enforced is how the worst insult you can throw at a man is to compare him to a woman, and by effect anything feminine. It's about reminding everyone that women are inferior to men, so don't be like a woman in any way or else you're "less of a man" and therefore inferior too.

Have you ever seen that movie "The Sandlot?" Well there's a scene where our protagonist boys are being harassed by another sportsball team, and the captains are throwing insults back and forth. They each seem to be shrugging things off, until one boy crosses the line by saying "You play sportsball like a girl!" and that's too much ... and a challenge must be made (to prove their "manliness" by winning at sports)

You see similar things all the time everywhere ... "You cry like a little girl," etc. Or you'll see drill sergeant types calling their trainees "girls" or "ladies" as a way of telling them they're too soft and really need to work harder, as a motivator because you don't want to be seen as female in any way! When you see a male character in a work of fiction not be the greatest hero, or God forbid see a woman outperform him, men will say he's been "emasculated," because he's let masculinity down and not proven its superiority to femininity ... and that's what all those haters of things like Captain Marvel or current Star Wars are all about (even if they don't realize it)

Toxic masculinity hurts men by forcing you to act a certain way, and not be emotionally healthy.

But it hurts all women, because it creates a culture where it's universally accepted that women aren't as capable as men. Why would you trust a woman to do something instead of a man? She's weak and doesn't have those "superior" traits, so you need a man to do it. If you're a woman trying to make it in this "man's world," you'll run up against barriers all the time because of this, when you're considered the worst thing to be in our society.

Call a man whatever names you want, just never, ever call him a woman! And that's toxic masculinity in a nutshell :)

Additionally ... I keep seeing you making comments about how you're "left-leaning," and here calling yourself a feminist, while to be perfectly honest your posting history here doesn't suggest either to me. I feel, based on what I've seen you write here, you'd fit in pretty solidly as a conservative Republican in the United States, you'd clearly be on the right side of our political spectrum. Do you feel you need to keep saying those things because deep down you know you're not, but wish you were? I feel if you want to be progressive leaning, a first step I'd recommend would be to recognize that your current views are anything but, and then learn from others who really are progressives and feminists so you can become what you want to be :)
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I said I was left wing economically and on things like gay marriage, climate change etc.

I don't buy into the extreme left sjw type stuff as I think it's counter productive and is a wedge issue.

I don't mind girl power movies like Moana, Wonder Women and things like Sense 8.

I don't like girl power movies where they gender shift the male characters and/or present the male characters as clowns to try and get the female characters over.
. I don't like The Last Jedi, TFA was alright liked Rogue One, Solo was a bit meh.

I also don't buy into more than 2 genders, (maybe 3 for intersex) or genders being the same. Men are bigger and stronger, women get pregnant. Doesn't make the genders better than each other.

Broadly speaking this means I support things like welfare for single parents and government support for families.

Immigration I might come across bad right wing that's more pragmatic though. I don't care where immigrants come from nor would I deport them except ones that over stay visa s etc which New Zealand already does.

And we have a form of birthright citizen ship here but tourists can't come here, have kids and get citizenship.

Immigration in particular needs an overhaul in the USA and EU. Part of that overhaul probably means less and the open border thing in EU may need a look at as it's fueling resentment and the rise of populism


Alot of that is the locals getting priced out of their own cities and property being used by rich foreigners as tax dodged or investment.

I suppose I did say I wouldn't date a trans women, at least I'm honest but you want kids so I assume a trans man is off the menu for you (hypothetically I know you're married)?

Immigration and it's effect on housing prices brought down a government here in 2017. Labour got elected campaigning on less immigration and has reduced the visa numbers. Labour is left wing here, a lot of trade unionists don't like mass migration.
 
I think the only TV show or movie to make me sniffle was the end of Babylon 5.

Sucker for a love story.
 
AdamCrock said:
I cried on Titanic , LOTR got to me too (music coupled with an awesome story), but I didn't cried. On Titanic however I did. - I get very emotional and involved watching romantic movies -. The moment when Rose dropped the "Heart of the ocean" into the ... umm well ocean :D was the most emotional for me.
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Waltz of Archibald Joyce is often associated with Titanic and was probably one of the songs orchestra played on sinking ship. Very touching.

When Rose jumped from lifeboat back to Titanic though, it was incredibly stupid, and probably cost Jack life.
 
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