# What the fuck, Beaten Man? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691 "2002-11-20T03:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/81 "2002-11-21T05:22:19Z")
“Let it out…go on…cry. You’ll feel better.” OHHHH GOOOD!!! I HATE THATTT!!! AAAAARRRGH!! And I’m a girl. eheheh I think whether or not it’s a weakness is pretty relative to me. Some people are more openly emotional than others and I wouldn’t condemn someone to call it “weakness” just because they might cry when I myself would not. I don’t think that dismissing someone as “weak” because they’re not as stoic as another is something that’s worth paying attention to anyway. It certainly wouldn’t likely change that person anyway. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/82 "2002-11-21T06:11:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BeatenMan \* > **When I went to school they would swat you with the paddle in front of the whole class.** [Gramdpa Simpson] Crying at the movies? You better believe thats a paddlin’ [/Gramdpa Simpson] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/83 "2002-11-21T06:13:30Z")
Huh? Read “Grampa” for “Gramdpa” ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/84 "2002-11-21T11:05:22Z")
This reminds me of the scene in _Sleepless in Seattle_: Sam Baldwin: Well I’m not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie! Greg: She’s, as you just saw, very emotional. Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of “the Dirty Dozen.” Greg: Who didn’t? Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jakel and Lee Marvin (Begins to cry.) were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis… Crying too Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez - Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez! Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines… Greg: Stop. Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jakel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet… Crying harder ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/85 "2002-11-21T11:09:34Z")
By the way, sadly it seems that there **is** in fact a cause for the “feminization” men: [Booze](http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/audesirk2/chapter14/essay2/deluxe-content.html) Now I’m really gonna cry ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/86 "2002-11-21T12:57:01Z")
No fair, **leander** … I mentioned that! Just not the actual dialog … BTW, **Beaten Man** … IMO they haven’t changed. Kids still beat the crap out of other kids who they deem aren’t tough. I believe they’re called wimps. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/87 "2002-11-22T00:15:07Z")
Sorry **dantheman** , just thought it was such a classic scene. Btw, _It’s a Wonderful Life_ is IMHO the ultimate weeper. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/88 "2002-11-22T00:49:41Z")
[Tom Hanks] There’s no CRYING in this uber masculine society of ours!!! [/Tom Hanks] > [@](#): > > No I am not trolling. Well it looks like I got my ass kicked. At least it wasn’t a tie so that no one got their feelings hurt. Why am I the only one who thinks schools have changed? When I went to school they would swat you with the paddle in front of the whole class. If you cried the bullies would pick on you. I mean like slam you into the lockers. > > They talk about feelings alot more than they used to, it’s like the Opra show. I really think they are teaching boys to act more like girls. Won’t anyone come to my defence? Do I have to cry for people to understand me? Seriously, **Beaten Man** , you’ve obviously never seen “Boston Public” Believe me. The principal gets to knock kids into lockers and teachers getting into fisticuffs. Whatever paltry paddling you suffered through, it’s nothing compared to this. Fiction IS stranger than truth…🙂 But anyway, isn’t it a good thing that these horrible things are stopping? And what exactly do you mean by feminizing men? I mean, what is your definition of feminine and masculine, and it better be a hell of a lot better than the stereotypical response, “Well you know, guys are BADASS, and women…um…er…” I mean, are you implying that all women are weak and have undesirable traits? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/89 "2002-11-22T00:55:17Z")
[Tom Hanks] There’s no CRYING in this uber masculine society of ours!!! [/Tom Hanks] > [@](#): > > No I am not trolling. Well it looks like I got my ass kicked. At least it wasn’t a tie so that no one got their feelings hurt. Why am I the only one who thinks schools have changed? When I went to school they would swat you with the paddle in front of the whole class. If you cried the bullies would pick on you. I mean like slam you into the lockers. > > They talk about feelings alot more than they used to, it’s like the Opra show. I really think they are teaching boys to act more like girls. Won’t anyone come to my defence? Do I have to cry for people to understand me? Seriously, **Beaten Man** , you’ve obviously never seen “Boston Public” Believe me. The principal gets to knock kids into lockers and teachers getting into fisticuffs. Whatever paltry paddling you suffered through, it’s nothing compared to this. Fiction IS stranger than truth…🙂 But anyway, isn’t it a good thing that these horrible things are stopping? And what exactly do you mean by feminizing men? I mean, what is your definition of feminine and masculine, and it better be a hell of a lot better than the stereotypical response, “Well you know, guys are BADASS, and women…um…er…” I mean, are you implying that all women are weak and have undesirable traits? ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/90 "2002-11-22T01:16:50Z")
I tihink most men would rather cry than kill themselves. Kleenex just aren’t very sharp. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/91 "2002-11-22T17:06:47Z")
I couldn’t cry, so I tried to slash my wrists with a razor. Good thing mine is electric. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-beaten-man/137691/92 "2002-11-22T20:55:24Z")
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