man, it is funny because as i was typing it i was also thinking to myself "hmmm you know someone is probably going to come along and say something snide in response to this", and here we are!

anyway i wasn't aware not being able to get misty while watching the green mile was so profoundly handicapping.  there is a difference between finding it very difficult to cry and being an emotional cripple; it's just one outlet for anxiety/emotions and i don't particularly think it's an enormous loss that i turn to other things for release instead.

oh give me a break, guy.  you are grossly misinterpreting my post if you saw any blatantly obvious insinuation that you are weak in it and i think at this point it is getting kind of obvious that you have some weird issue with me and are looking for things to pick apart in my post.  i don't act like a stupid internet badass, i regularly criticize people for making insensitive remarks, i just had a large public discussion with steel about compassion and yet somehow what you take out of my post is that i think less of men for crying.  excellent.  not that this should really be necessary to explain, but mostly i was just surprised, because i have never seen a guy cry in person for any reason other than PAIN and i would have no reason to expect them to do so in private.  i honestly thought everyone would answer "i don't cry".  i don't CARE if they do, but it did surprise me.

thank you though for taking my half-joking statement as a legit indication that i just.... don't understand... despite the fact that the very next sentence i elaborated so that (i thought!!) it was pretty clear i did not actually think crying exclusively represented sad movies/being sad in general.

honestly, this is really a load of bullshit on your part and it's kind of actually irritating me.  there are essentially three types of posts i make on gw: stupid, meaningless one-liners, big dumb bickering posts arguing about silly shit, and posts about stuff that probably in some way relates to social issues, in which i almost invariably talk about how shitty it is that people get such a bad lot in life so frequently based on inequality and discrimination.  seriously, like all of my posts fall under this umbrella.  basically, i'm saying: fuck you, i'm not emotionally crippled in the slightest, and you are presumptuous as hell for implying that i am because we do not know each other at all and i'm fairly certain the only basis you have for saying that i am is this topic, which you're way off the mark on, and that POST YOUR SOB STORIES topic where steel and i made all those posts when mkk was talking about being molested or whatever and you waltzed in and called me callous.


also i noticed you edited your post, but whatever; i already responded to the bottom part.

actually i just thought you were trying to PROVOKE ME with that remark, which is why i gave you a shitty response.

should i think that your throwing GREEN MILE AT ME is anything but trying to provoke me? forgive me but i am unable to detect a tone in your post that i could call PLAYFUL.

i don't think i would call it playful but no i wasn't trying to provoke you at all.  i don't really do that except for with idiots.  i think there's a pretty wide area in between PALLING AROUND and PROVOKING where something is just a joke.

also i thought it might be giving myself a lot of credit and that your response would be HEH I DONT GIVE THAT MUCH OF A FUCK, which i'm sure you don't, but then i thought about it and decided that i didn't think that was the case.  it has nothing to do with me; probably everyone has the tendency to disagree more actively with people they dislike than with people they do not (or maybe they don't, but i and most people i know seem to).  for example if steel were to post something i disagreed with i would probably be like MMM I DUNNO MAN, but if some other random guy i didn't like or thought was dumb were to post the same thing, i think i'd probably write a big ol angry post about it.  this is what it seems to me is happening here.

aaaanyway look man i don't really care if you dislike me.  i don't even mean that in a W/E I DON'T GIVE A SHIT, i mean it like i do not mind; i have a sinking suspicion whatever you think about me is accurate.  but!!!  at least i think it'd be cool if you weren't so openly hostile about stuff when as far as i can tell there is no reason to be (for example acting like i was trying to pick a fight in that bioshock topic when i was seriously asking for your opinion).  for my part, the FUCK YOU GUY thing was overboard and i feel kind of like a jerk now.  i actually think you are mostly cool, but it is really pretty insulting (not even e-insulting--ACTUAL insulting) to have a guy who doesn't even know you brand you as emotionally dysfunctional/immature because you said you have a hard time crying and pick fights over video games, so i got pretty mad and just thought fuck this guy.  i know i'm frequently antagonistic, but i just kind of do that for kicks, and it's not really something i do with ACTUAL INTELLIGENT PEOPLE in serious topics.

also, does anyone else tear up A LOT when they yawn? its really awkward/embarrasing sometimes when you yawn and suddenly your eyes are all watery and someone publicly asks "HEY MAN YOU AREN'T CRYING are you??"

this isn't actually crying or whatever from emotions but it popped into my head reading this topic.

Oh yeah that happens alot to me too. I hate it when we're watching a supposedly "moving" part of a movie or a book or something, and I yawn. Makes people look at me and be like all "Awww".

i shred a tear almost every time i watch a touching movie

but for actual crying i'd say about once a year

also, does anyone else tear up A LOT when they yawn? its really awkward/embarrasing sometimes when you yawn and suddenly your eyes are all watery and someone publicly asks "HEY MAN YOU AREN'T CRYING are you??"

this isn't actually crying or whatever from emotions but it popped into my head reading this topic.

I do this. Yawn, and your eyes water and shit. It fucking sucks when people interrogate you if they think you're crying.

Not a lot. I hardly cry. I mostly tear up.