tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post3040926950533029568..comments2023-08-11T05:49:23.366-04:00Comments on Exploring Believability: Men climb the mountain to reach the top.J. Sheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-17290519206976905712016-12-29T05:53:36.197-05:002016-12-29T05:53:36.197-05:00There is a mountain top and you can get to a point...There is a mountain top and you can get to a point where you are within control of your thoughts and emotions to a point where you feel at peace and don't let the outside world interfere with your happiness. <br /><br />Look at saint charbel(lebanese saint), he lived by himself for over 20 years and after he died, his body didn't decompose. Stealthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00941643957776392745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-1851899179652279062014-02-09T23:17:58.697-05:002014-02-09T23:17:58.697-05:00"It's really just a facet of the concept ..."It's really just a facet of the concept of "masculinity" and the idea that emotions are a sign of weakness (because they're "feminine")"<br />The fuck it has to do with "Feminine"? Dont you think it has to do with the fact that being emotional means you are more harder to convince with facts and reason? Or that being emotionally driven means death in the battlefield where a single error can get everyone killed? I hardly believe that a soldier is worried about being emotional because it might look like a woman (or some shit excuse like that), when survival has and always will be a priority. <br />http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmotionsVsStoicism<br /><br />How is being pragmatic and efficient about WHEN to display emotion equals to the rejection of "Feminine" traits? Hell, how are those traits supposed to be Masculine exclusive, considering that people have enough Free Will to embrace those traits as they see fit?<br /><br />Tangent: James Bond, really? Mordin Solus wasn't available?Armando Ezequil Gonzaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002826922840567826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-87693936573815642732014-02-08T18:32:26.546-05:002014-02-08T18:32:26.546-05:00oh you two, never changeoh you two, never changeTheSilentWitnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17348823500693619692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-70491587249608576592014-02-03T00:09:19.719-05:002014-02-03T00:09:19.719-05:00But my feelings are real.But my feelings are real.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141712049414771726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-15216879647751995912014-02-02T23:56:11.891-05:002014-02-02T23:56:11.891-05:00It's impossible to miss a person you've ne...It's impossible to miss a person you've never met.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-52077424890284747152014-02-02T22:59:11.791-05:002014-02-02T22:59:11.791-05:00Missed you. Missed you. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141712049414771726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-63694807254193127972014-02-02T18:13:33.568-05:002014-02-02T18:13:33.568-05:00One of the reasons I like Children of Men is the f...One of the reasons I like Children of Men is the fact that the protagonist Theo is a man in an action movie who actually responds to the situation in ways beyond "cool detachment" or "snarky sarcasm". Early on when he survives a terrorist bomb going off in a coffee shop he'd just left, he basically just freezes up and is oblivious to the chaos around him. Later on after seeing a loved one killed he actually breaks down crying. Men crying in pure grief is something you almost NEVER see in movies, action movies especially.<br /><br />It's really just a facet of the concept of "masculinity" and the idea that emotions are a sign of weakness (because they're "feminine"), therefore someone who doesn't experience them or is able to just shrug them off is strong. The "thousand yard stare" is something that represents that idea and so people latch on to it as a sign of grim determination, rather than being a sign of a person who's been fundamentally broken by their experiences. People get thousand yard stares when they've been through so much stress that the only way for them to keep from just freezing up in grief or terror is to disconnect entirely. They're staring off into space because they've lost the ability to really register what's going on around them, not because they're so stoic that they don't let it affect them.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15316512311784618268noreply@blogger.com