Are strong women "plotting" and "calculating" when they show emotion?

[Clintonista2]

Poll question: Are strong women "plotting" and "calculating" when they show emotion?

[skooooo]

1. When they are doing it to manipulate people...

yes!

[AGirl]

2. well you know how women always use their emotions to get things from men

Yes WE can!! :roll my eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Like when they want S-E-double-toothpicks

The begging, the threats, the reaching down my pants in public, saying they want to get pregnant, the sudden interest in porn, all that stuff.

They're just like wild animals with no self-control in mating season.

--p!

[pampango]

3. We're lumping all women together. Wow, that's progressive.

How about some people manipulate others and some don't.

[Jed Dilligan]

4. It's considered more "normal" for women to emote

There are those who use this cultural bias for manipulative reasons, but I wouldn't call them "strong."

[Debi]

5. When it conveniently occurs the day before a must-win primary (twice)

Yes. :eyes:

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Option 3:

This is a moronic poll.

[Bostonglobechicka]

7. please lirwin. as an obama supporter, im begging you to stop

enflaming a nonissue.

please just leave it alone.

[Bluebear]

9. 4 posts and begging already?

;)

[mondo joe]

13. That's not begging.

Put some beg into it.

[Marrah_G]

10. This poll is very disturbing-

[sniffa]

14. That it was posted, or the results?

[Bostonglobechicka]

15. this poll bothers me. why does the op find it necessary to inflame a nonissue?

[Marrah_G]

19. Obviously it is not a non issue...... The poll show that.

[cgrindley]

11. Neither men nor women should show emotion

all public displays of emotions other than quiet resolution or grim determination are disgusting

[adapa]

12. your funny

I like your sense of hummor

[cgrindley]

16. Tell me whose brilliant idea it was for everyone to start blubbing and talking

about their mother fucking feelings in public all the time. Keep your god damn feelings to yourself. No one needs or wants to see you get all emotional. Jesus. I wouldn't cry at my own parents' funeral. Show some class, America.

[Marrah_G]

20. you forgot the sarcasm tag right?

[cgrindley]

21. It's like hugging people

What makes people want to touch me? I absolutely hate being touched.

This country would be a lot better off if everyone simply learned to control themselves better.

If you want to show some emotion, write a poem, paint something, draw a picture, make a film, write a novel or a short story. But for god's sakes, keep your personal problems off your damn face. It's disgusting.

[Marrah_G]

26. Wow- I would not want to live in your world.

If it works for you- great. I just know, for myself, I would hate a world devoid of emotion.

[cgrindley]

27. My world is neat and clean

it has a nicely trimmed lawn and no laundry lines. I have a deep and rewarding emotional life which I share with my friends and family and which I memorialize in my writing. I just object to showing it in public. The closest I get to that is when I deliver a poetic address at some event.

[Scout]

28. "What makes people want to touch me?" don't know ... *I* sure don't n/t

[cgrindley]

30. Come on... how many people routinely hug people hello?

what an awkward slice of time that is. I'd actually rather fake kiss someone than hug them.

[emilyg]

36. Are you very lonely?

[cgrindley]

38. Nope... married, kids, lots of friends

I hug my wife and sometimes my kids, although mostly I just shake my son's hand as he is now 14. The baby is only 3 months old, so I still kiss the top of his bald little head.

[adapa]

33. I am speechless --lighten up dude-

[MethuenProgressive]

17. I VOTED "YES!" CUZ WE WANT REAL MANLY MALE MAN NOT CRYING BROADS!!!1!

How could she EVER NUKE THE CAMEL COMMIES with TEARS in her EYES?!?!?/!!1

[ecstatic]

18. No, it takes a strong woman to show emotion. I wish I was able to show more emotion

For instance, to escape tickets, etc.

[Bostonglobechicka]

22. obviously a lot of hillary supporters are voting yes just to make obama supporters look bad. for sha

[La Lioness Priyanka]

25. yeah i am sure...

:eyes:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. no, neither are they not feminist because they cry. i dont want to have to become a man

to be considered worthy.

[iconocrastic]

24. Idiotic poll

[supernova]

29. We Strong Women are human beings

like everyone else.

It is rare that I cry, rarer still that I cry in public (once or twice in my 45 years), but my tears are no manipulation and no less real for their rarity.

[milkyway]

31. Do you mean a woman who hasn't cried in a quarter century of public life but does the day before

voting, not once, but now twice? How convenient!

[Clintonista2]

39. How do you know she hasn't cried in a quarter century of public life?

Have you watched every single public event she's ever held for a quarter of a century? Grow up.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

32. Yes, because all women can cry on cue - we learned how at Gurlz Only Camp

That's the secret camp every gurl must join in order to become part of the Wimmenz Club.

I must have missed the registration but my 9th grade homeroom teacher (male) told us all about it.

He was just making a joke after losing a fight with his wife, but clearly many here believe it. Even gurlz.

[adapa]

35. yeah, we attend at exactly the same time guy's go to the 'only boys can run things' camp

love you, mean it
runs & hides-

funny post!

[Vinca]

34. It depends on whether you view the strong woman as honest. nt

[McCamy Taylor]

37. Whats bs is this? Are men gay when they cry?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. Isn't emoting the opposite of plotting and calculating?

I don't how someone could plot a crying spell or cry on cue unless they were truly an accomplished actress. And to do it so subtly that you can just barely see a bit of wetness appear in the eyes would be a masterful acting performance. I think everyone feels pain, sorrow, happiness and a range of emotions, men and women. Men just have this absolute fear of showing sorrow in public because it supposedly makes them appear weak. They'd rather bite a finger off than show tears in their eyes. I'm sure what makes a women cry openly is also something that could make a man cry within. We all have human feelings.