Rose, Brooke, Kara, I have to agree. There really will be no “ideal” man (or anything else for that matter), because our ideals always change. As we grow older, we perceive, or believe that we perceive, flaws with our ideals and change them only to change them again later.

Joseph, I was rather certain that she would behave in that manner after reading the blurb on her, so I decided not to go to that lecture. I have no problem with feminism, like most other things, when it is a moderate action. Almost anything taken to an extreme is, to me at any rate, generally distasteful.

I believe that crying or the showing of most other emotions can be a healthy thing if done in the proper manner (as in being non-destructive, or as non-destructive as possible). You will find that there are different reasons that some people refuse to show them. Most people, it’s true, simply try to live within the bounds of the stereotype that is a sign of weakness for men to cry while others have other reasons.

Speaking personally, I do occasionally show those emotions when I feel them and it is safe for me to do so. For the most part, I tend to save most of my emotions for when I am alone or with my group. Instead, I just try to walk a path somewhere between what, for me, would be “overly emotional” and cold. The reason for this is much the same as the reason for my reluctance to speak about a lot of my past: I dislike laying too many cards on the table at any one time, so to speak. I’ve done it in the past, and it’s gotten me, as well as a few others, in a great deal of trouble.