It’s hard to believe that it’s not yet three years since Hillary Clinton proved she was incapable of being president by choking up a bit when she made the point that elections and their consequences actually mattered to real people. The fact that she came close to-might even have-shedding a few tears was all we heard about on the news.
Fast forward three years and here’sJohn Boehner once again shedding copious tears for no discernible reason. Nary a word do we hear about his unfitness for the office to which he aspires. Whatever happened to that sentiment I heard from my (female, as it happened) Dentist, as she prepared to drill my un-anesthetized teeth: “Big Boys Don’t Cry”? Were the Four Seasons right after all? Is it only Big Girls Who Don’t Cry?
Perhaps I’m revealing my age. Yes Virginia, I remember a time when it was considered “unmanly” to cry. In that long ago time, a woman was permitted, within reason, to shed a few tears no questions asked. Now, it seems, the rules are reversed. Imagine, if you will, what we would have heard had Nancy Pelosi ever shed a single tear in response to the vicious assaults against her, not to mention what would have been said had she broken down like Boehner did.
But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this has nothing to do with gender. Maybe this is simply one more facet of a rule of political life that seems to have become cast into concrete: IOKIYAR.
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