{"id":4367,"date":"2010-12-13T16:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2010-12-13T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T21:10:22","slug":"its-a-topsy-turvy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"It’s a topsy turvy world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

Fast forward three years and here’sJohn Boehner once again shedding copious tears for no discernible reason<\/a>. 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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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