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"81 Years, NOT 91 Felonies"
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Location: Dallas, TX
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Originally Posted by strongcoffeeandsunhine
There is nothing at all wrong with crying but this is just coddling and it's not doing these students any favors in preparing them for the real stresses of adult life.
It's wrong to bottle up your emotions and not cry because you think it makes you look tough.
But..
It's also wrong to coddle and encourage an overreaction to a normal life challenge and help young people turn into emotional cripples every time something doesn't go their way.
I fail to grasp how "coddling" is a problem. The idea that sensitive people deserve whatever scorn they get is just two things, neither of them being chiseled-in-stone fact: a cultural prejudice and a mere aesthetic argument.
The first boils down to thinking the weak (read: "emotional cripples") deserve whatever open disrespect that comes their way on account of their weakness alone. The second boils down to "they deserve castigation merely because it's unpleasant to look at and/or hear". Why should I take either assumption seriously?
Everybody needs support in life from the stresses of life. That's a huge reason why friends or other means of social support are important. Even in military and western films, the hero(es) need support from others to "save the day". If it's true for physical confrontations, then why not for non-physical ones? On top of that, crying does relieve stress in life. Cultural prejudices against it actually make it worse for the sufferer. I also get the feeling people who hate sensitive people are just uncomfortable because it threatens their illusions about the world being a great (or at least adequate) place to live, and they don't like their illusions shattered.
Embarrassed to say I graduated from that university... back in those days my cry-closet was a toilet stall, usually when the due date for tuition payments came around. It was stocked with the previous guest's um... leavings and a bottle of Vodka
This is hilarious. Universities do all kinds of crazy things during study weeks and exam weeks.
I was at the University of Texas in the early 70s. The library tower observation deck was always closed just before and during exam weeks because there were too frequently students who couldn't handle the strain and jumped off. I don't know if it is still the policy, but it made sense to me at the time.
Really sad our society has come to this. Liberals can't handle differing opinions or wrong-think.
I somehow doubt if there are many liberals at the University of Utah...
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