# If you cry over politics, you're a pansy.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 6, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394 "2008-11-06T01:47:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/1 "2008-11-06T01:47:59Z")
Or a bullshitter.
So, either you’re a melodramatic asshole, or you really need to get a life. Maybe both.
This applies to pansies/melodramatic assholes on political talk shows, in real life, and those posting on message boards.
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/2 "2008-11-06T01:49:13Z")
Okay, I’m a pansy. _shrug_
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/3 "2008-11-06T01:49:50Z")
_raises hand_ Pansy.
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### Author:  [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/4 "2008-11-06T01:50:26Z")
Can I be a tulip instead?
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/5 "2008-11-06T01:52:22Z")
I’m confused. Is the pansy the one who needs to get a life, or is that the bullshitter? And which one is the melodramatic asshole?
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### Author:  [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/6 "2008-11-06T01:52:25Z")
Oooh, pansy; that smarts! I’m rubber, you’re something…
I’m not in the third grade anymore.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/7 "2008-11-06T01:53:11Z")
I couldn’t be mistaken for any sort of flower. Perhaps a weed? I’ve one in mind…
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/8 "2008-11-06T01:54:14Z")
What if your rectum twitches?
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/9 "2008-11-06T01:54:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> I couldn’t be mistaken for any sort of flower. Perhaps a weed? I’ve one in mind…
Skunk cabbage? _d & r_
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/10 "2008-11-06T01:54:37Z")
Pansy here.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/11 "2008-11-06T01:55:15Z")
So no crying in politics, or in baseball. Got it.
What happens next season when Obama throws out the first pitch?
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/12 "2008-11-06T01:56:51Z")
I am not a pansy. I’m a precious snowflake, goddamn it!
Or a daisy. Or a daisycutter. Pick one. Pick all.
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### Author:  [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/13 "2008-11-06T01:58:46Z")
Christ, I’d hate to sit through a PETA video with any of you.
My apologies to **Q.E.D.** , I should have clarified. People who cry over politics are both pansies (yuk yuk! it’s a flower! so witty!), **and** melodramatic assholes who also need lives.
But wasn’t this all much easier than a vitriolic essay?
ETA: I cried once in baseball when somebody purple-nurpled me.
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/14 "2008-11-06T01:59:08Z")
Condescending trolls who say ‘get a life’ will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. See if they aren’t.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/15 "2008-11-06T01:59:24Z")
On TV, I happily pretend to be a Gerbera daisy. What’s it to you, Mr. Internet Tough Guy?
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/16 "2008-11-06T01:59:35Z")
I’m a pansy, then. I cried in 2004, and I cried last night (obviously for very different reasons). I prefer it to being someone who can’t see that politics affects real peoples’ lives in very real ways.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/17 "2008-11-06T02:00:27Z")
> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#):
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> Christ, I’d hate to sit through a PETA video with any of you.
I’ll bring popcorn!
Wait, does popcorn have faces?
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/18 "2008-11-06T02:02:06Z")
Nope, just a real human being who isn’t afraid of his own emotions.
Don’t confuse violent self-repression with “strength”.
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### Author:  [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/19 "2008-11-06T02:03:06Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I’ll bring popcorn!
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> Wait, does popcorn have faces?
Delicious, caramel-coated, terror-contorted faces. Mm.
Keep in mind that I never mentioned that politics don’t affect the day-to-day life. Just that you’re being completely ridiculous by crying about it.
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### Author:  [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cry-over-politics-youre-a-pansy/471394/20 "2008-11-06T02:05:01Z")
Would you care to share your personal list of situations in which crying is not completely ridiculous?
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