Jet Blue

[Isaviel]

I'm sure most of you heard about this story...

Jet Blue

Unreal. To watch yourself on tv? Scary!

The one thing that burns me is this quote:

At the end it was the worst because you didn't know if it was going to work, if we would catch fire. It was very scary. Grown men were crying," said Diane Hamilton, 32, a television graphics specialist.

What is this crap? Are men not suppose to cry? Are they not allowed to show fear?

This always bothers me. It's like men have to carry this image of being tough and emotions are bad.

[Talsek]

I've seen women cry when their hair doesn't look right, when they can't find their keys, or when a cute puppy comes on TV. It's not unusual to see a woman cry, it happens. When I see a guy burst into tears, it seems out of the ordinary. I'd be the first to tell you that it's kind of silly to hide your emotions in an effort to appear tough, and I don't see anything wrong with tears to express emotion. However, in my experience, women crying doesn't tell you shit about the severity of a situation. To me, men crying casts it in a different light.

I'm sure that all sounds so out-of-place and sexist nowadays, but oh well. It's not discrimination, it's a conclusion drawn from observation.

[Isaviel]

I'll admit that it scares me more or in other circumstances it saddens me more to see a man cry. If a man is crying they are either scared or emotionally really hurt by something.

[Lokrian]

Originally posted by Isaviel
What is this crap? Are men not suppose to cry? Are they not allowed to show fear?

Pretty much. Yeah.

Is that so wroooong?

[Darion]

I was thoroughly unimpressed by this entire affair. I mentioned a similar incident briefly in another post related to airlines in which we were forced to deal with a plane whose landing gear completely failed to deploy and we got no live TV footage complete with talking heads discussing probable courses of action for hours. This airliner's landing gear just deployed crooked and it skidded to a stop. The wheel caught fire because that's what wheels do when they're not rotating and moving at 100+ mph. Whee.

The left rear landing gear on the military-chartered flight completely failed to deploy and totalled the left wing, leaving the plane in such miserable condition that it had to be left on the airstrip until mechanics could jack it up and haul it off.

I think I might just be bitter over my buddies' flight not showing up on the evening news because there were no rich businessmen on the flight, just a pack of scrubby, unshowered soldiers straight out of Baghdad International.

For the record, if any men cried over this they probably had panties on under their trousers.

[Isaviel]

Originally posted by Lokrian
Pretty much. Yeah.

Is that so wroooong?

Yes and no. I mean I know it's the "macho" thing about men but it's not good to hold emotions in to build up. I've seen a man cry not from fear. It made me cry because I knew how much they were hurt.

[Lokrian]

Originally posted by Isaviel
Yes and no. I mean I know it's the "macho" thing about men but it's not good to hold emotions in to build up. I've seen a man cry not from fear. It made me cry because I knew how much they were hurt.

I dunno. I think people of both genders can be too open and sensitive as well. Life can be rough, and if you let it get to you too much it just drags at you. Or well, it does to me.

I tell ya, cry and have someone not empathize the way you seem to do and tell me again how ok you feel. You know? Sometimes you have to hold it in until you know whether you are in the company of friends and so on. Otherwise you set yourself up.

That goes not just for crying but opening up in general. There's good times and bad times for opening yourself up.

This dodged off of Jet Blue in a big hurry!