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Let's Watch Obama Cry And Then Talk About It  Michael McKenna We
all know, for instance, that it’s not OK to burst into heaving,
tissue-requiring, first-date-ruining tears because you feel like
your cat didn’t want you to go to work today. The world that we
want to exist and the world that the species needs to exist for
the sake of its own continuance are two different things. I
found this out pretty early.  Born in the late 1970s, I came of
age in the early-to-mid 1990s when you basically weren’t allowed
to say how anything actually was. This was the era of
“consciousness-raising,” of consent forms and of learning
heartfelt little lessons on how-to-live-in-civilization from
pre-Stone Age tribes. However human beings actually acted and
wanted each other to act in various situations, we were
encouraged (compelled) to say and do the hopeful opposite. And
so I cried in front of my girlfriend one time.  Is this so bad?
Well, yes. Going by experienc