Manliness reborn: he cries, she doesn't

  I read this column at Big Hollywood a couple days ago and have thought of it several times since and smiled, each time I thought of the implications of it.
  It's been interesting watching the men and women of DC and Hollywood scramble to discredit the new Republicans in command of the party, the criticism of Boehner for being a cry baby and the criticism of Palin for not being a cry baby. 
  While it is discomfiting to see a grown man cry (a contention that held true for some of us when Clinton let forth with the phony waterworks), a certain amount of sympathy has to be extended toward a person who is so naturally emotional in the face of events that move him, having come from a large poor family to being third in line for the presidency.
  There is a certain amount of ambivalence toward both these individuals, but one has to admire them, however reluctantly, both for being unafraid to be exactly who they are. 
  It's also amusing that people like Barbara Walters are so comfortable saying things such as Boehner has something wrong with him for being so emotional (where was she when Clinton cried) and digging away to get others to criticize Palin for running for president when she isn't running for president. 
  Barbara Walters is sort of a slithery weasel, moving in on a victim and lisping temptations in their ear, then whipping away squealing exultantly when the victim succumbs and says or does something revealing on camera that will be the tease for her stupid show for the next week. 
  The truth is if she can get EVERYBODY to cry on camera, the weasel squeals. Didn't Oprah cry in the same show?
  Hawkins at BH puts his finger on why they are so afraid of Sarah Palin. He has a point here:

Everyone who takes time out of their busy schedule to watch Sarah Palin’s Alaska(with an open mind) gets the double benefit of seeing manliness reborn and being reminded that we need not tolerate the incessant whining of the feminized, socialistic portions of Hollywood, journalism, and animal rights groups.

For these factions, through their relentless criticism of guns, hunting, and masculinity, have made it clear that they only tolerate that with which they agree. Therefore, it’s nice to see Palin stand up like a man and tell them to shove it.

  Though I didn't catch the show, the clips I've seen from it are amusing, as Palin reacts to the whining of Kate whatshername for being stuck out in the wilderness without the comforts of her soy latte and personal trainer.

  So here we have Palin, who's unafraid to climb mountains, club halibut, and take down a moose, unlike most of the namby pambys in DC, and she's mocked for it by both Republicans and democrats, who can't remember a Roosevelt shooting out in the wilderness or an Eisenhower unafraid of being assertive. 
  She's a woman, after all. 
  Then there's Boehner, who responds in an instinctively opposite manner to what society expects from a "man," yet the left can only whisper that there's something wrong with him. If so, there's been something wrong with him for a long time because he's had a reputation for being emotional for many years. Boehner's wife explains his emotion this way: "He's going through an emotional period...He was a janitor on the night shift when I met him. He's come a long way."
  But to the left, this is appalling, scary and unmanly.
  So I guess the old stereotype is true, according to the left.
  Real men don't cry.
  Heh.