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TV Drama where women don't cry?

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@Very-Rusty
My sincere sympathies for your loss.

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@suzianne said
At least I'm not a "man wanna-be", like half of y'all in here.
Thank you for your part in maintaining damaging stereotypes about manhood. 🙄

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@very-rusty said
My Brother-in-Law passed on Christmas Day, we knew each other since I was 17. I couldn't have had a better friend and he seemed more like a Brother to me. Yes, I cried like a baby! No one was around though. 🙂

-VR
Sorry to hear it, Rusty. Must have been and still be a big loss.

I think there was a recent study where people self-reported how many times they had cried in the past week, and for men it was about three or four times whereas women might only have cried once.

Of course, men tend to cry alone in private, whereas women are more likely to deploy crying tactically. 😉

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@suzianne said
I think threads like this, reinforcing the idea of women as 'drama queens', don't do justice to the strength of women at all.
I'm talking about fictional characters. Hence, the word "TV" in the thread title.

My OP is about how women are portrayed in fiction. I made no comment on the actual nature of women.

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@vivify said
I'm talking about fictional characters. Hence, the word "TV" in the thread title.

My OP is about how women are portrayed in fiction. I made no comment on the actual nature of women.
Since it's unlikely you yourself will ever provide your own answers to any of your OP questions, I'll make some attempts:

Barbara Stanwyck in The Big Valley
Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke
Elizabeth Collins in Dark Shadows
The Silicoid women in Space: Above and Beyond
Number Six in Battlestar Galactica
Alexis in Dynasty
Lt. Uhura in original Star Trek
Maureen and Judy Robinson in Lost in Space

I haven't watched enough of Game of Thrones to know whether anyone ever cried.

Which dramas have you been watching, @vivify?

And, assuming you are male, are you white-knighting re: how women are presented in those dramas?

I hope not, because that would be disrespectful toward the women who agreed to play those roles, who apparently must be too weak and dimwitted to protest on their own how those roles are written.

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@vivify said
I'm talking about fictional characters. Hence, the word "TV" in the thread title.

My OP is about how women are portrayed in fiction. I made no comment on the actual nature of women.
I wonder whose sock-puppet you might be.

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@kevin-eleven said
Since it's unlikely you yourself will ever provide your own answers to any of your OP questions, I'll make some attempts:

Barbara Stanwyck in The Big Valley
Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke
Elizabeth Collins in Dark Shadows
The Silicoid women in Space: Above and Beyond
Number Six in Battlestar Galactica
Alexis in Dynasty
Lt. Uhura in original Star Trek
Maureen and Judy R ...[text shortened]... , who apparently must be too weak and dimwitted to protest on their own how those roles are written.
Interesting.

I get falsely accused that I'm stereotyping women as "drama queens", then you call me a white knight for simply clarifying that I wasn't.

Two people accusing me of polar opposite things regarding my OP.

Let's keep 'em coming. Maybe I'm also a Zionist Holocaust denier.

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@vivify said
Interesting.

I get falsely accused that I'm stereotyping women as "drama queens", then you call me a white knight for simply clarifying that I wasn't.

Two people accusing me of polar opposite things regarding my OP.

Let's keep 'em coming. Maybe I'm also a Zionist Holocaust denier.
Nah. I think you're just a bored troll. Oh, the humanity!

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@kevin-eleven said
Nah. I think you're just a bored troll. Oh, the humanity!
You are quite vanilla if you consider this thread a "troll".

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@vivify

It's your own posts that give you away.

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@kevin-eleven said
@vivify

It's your own posts that give you away.
My post that "gives me away" as both a white knight and knuckle-dragging woman hater?

I'm more brilliant than I thought.

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@vivify

What keeps you from answering questions, including your own?

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@kevin-eleven said
@vivify

What keeps you from answering questions, including your own?
If I knew the answer, I wouldn't have started the thread, obviously. I was asking because I was seriously asking.

Every single solitary drama I see on TV has women crying, seemingly at least every other episode. Although, I don't watch much TV, I just join my wife sometimes when she does.

But if I were to venture a guess: maybe Xena: Warrior Princes shows lead female without tears for a whole season. I know she does cry at some point, but based on what I can remember, it probably took a while to see that.

I guess starting a thread about women, even in fiction, elicits too much emotion around here.

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@vivify said

I guess starting a thread about women, even in fiction, elicits too much emotion around here.
Not to hand you more rope, but please do go on.

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@kevin-eleven said
Not to hand you more rope, but please do go on.
Oh, because I used the words "women" and "emotion" in the same sentence.

The SJW is strong in this one.

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