The largely positive response to Garland's tears was a pleasant surprise, given the traditional stereotypes associated with men who openly display emotion.īy the time Nirvana broke the doors down for alternative rock in 1992, Pixies were effectively broken up. People have criticized, if not outright mocked, men who have shed tears in public, from former House Speaker John Boehner (who subsequently became a meme) and James Van Der Beek on Dawson's Creek (who might be the first teary dude to become a meme). In light of our history of mocking men who cry, one would think the warm response to Garland shows we've gotten more progressive in terms of gender roles and emotion.īut really, just for men. The public response to female politicians who cry in public has been markedly different. Back in 2008, for instance, Hillary Clinton was roundly skewered when she openly wept at a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Maureen Dowd described the mixed response to Clinton's tears: Three guys watched it over and over, drawn to the "humanized" Hillary. One reporter who covers security issues cringed. "Is this how she'll talk to Kim Jong-il?" Unlike the applause for Garland, the response to Clinton's tears (in the ostensibly liberal New York Times office, no less) was hostile, if not openly sexist.
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