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I was just reminded of Nancy Pelosi's interview on Meet the Press this Sunday. (She's the congresswoman who drew the short straw when the Democrats were choosing someone to take the flack for calling the president "incompetent."
She came across as a reasonable, calm, determined woman, and I was thinking how - dare I say it? - presidential she seemed. Until the host played a video of Tom DeLay saying that Pelosi's statement endangers the lives of our troops.
I saw her eyes tear up and thought, "No no no no please don't cry please don't...arrggghhhhh!"
Next thing you know, she was dabbing at her eyes with a hankie. Damn our tear ducts!
She tried not to seem rattled by the audacity of the accusation; in fact, she'd been expecting the replay because she had a perfectly sane, unemotional reply. But she couldn't stop that one tear that gave men all over America permission to roll their eyes and say, "Must be that time of the month."
I felt for her, I really did. How many times, in the business world, have I seen men lose their tempers, pound desks, quit in protest and later have to ask for their jobs back - But never once have I seen one cry.
How is it that men control their tear ducts so much better than we do? And why is shedding a tear the one thing we can't forgive in an authority figure?
She came across as a reasonable, calm, determined woman, and I was thinking how - dare I say it? - presidential she seemed. Until the host played a video of Tom DeLay saying that Pelosi's statement endangers the lives of our troops.
I saw her eyes tear up and thought, "No no no no please don't cry please don't...arrggghhhhh!"
Next thing you know, she was dabbing at her eyes with a hankie. Damn our tear ducts!
She tried not to seem rattled by the audacity of the accusation; in fact, she'd been expecting the replay because she had a perfectly sane, unemotional reply. But she couldn't stop that one tear that gave men all over America permission to roll their eyes and say, "Must be that time of the month."
I felt for her, I really did. How many times, in the business world, have I seen men lose their tempers, pound desks, quit in protest and later have to ask for their jobs back - But never once have I seen one cry.
How is it that men control their tear ducts so much better than we do? And why is shedding a tear the one thing we can't forgive in an authority figure?