In discussing Brett Favre's retirement speech, I did note that it was a blubberfest, but it never crossed my mind to criticize the guy for it. I only thought of the words of The Big Lebowski. "Are you surprised at my tears, sir? Strong men also cry ... strong men ... also cry."

Especially in sports. It's not like Warren Schmidt retiring from the Woodmen of the World insurance company in Omaha (though that has its own challenges). 

Here's the difference, here's what Laura Ingraham didn't get, and here's why it's going to lead to tears: You do not become a great athlete without a strong passion for what you're doing. If you don't love to play, and if you don't love and trust your teammates, and you're not willing to sacrifice your body to make a play for your team ... you're not going to be great, and you're never going to be a part of a great team. Favre was great, in part because he did all those things.

Having teammates is not like having coworkers. You develop a bond with teammates that goes beyond what you develop with Yvette, the middle-aged woman in human resources with the Garfield calendar. 

In football, you have to trust the people you work with. And it's not the kind of trust where you're hoping they'll get the Power Point presentation done on time. You have to trust that a guy will break his back in order to protect you. It's 11 men vs. 11 men, all trying to do great bodily harm to one another. That tends to bring a group of 11 people together.

Brett Favre routinely picked Donald Driver up over his shoulders after touchdowns. Favre's passionate nature and the bond they had to develop led to that sort of thing. When's the last time you threw Yvette from Human Resources over your shoulders?

And he's letting go of all that. All the effort and passion and sacrifice he put into his job, all the bonds he had with his teammates, all the camaraderie he established with his boys ... that's worth shedding a few tears for, yes?

Anyway, I don't think any of this factored into her thinking when Laura Ingraham went off on Brett Favre. She just saw a man crying, which contradicted her vision of the ideal man, which goes something like, "Man strong, man don't cry, man go kill bear, bring home for dinner for family, wife cook, family eat, man ravage wife with brute force, so wife make more babies with her wide childbearing hips."

Here's what she said:

"All these years, and I didn't know there was a woman quarterback in the NFL.

"Brett Favre ... we're watching this in the studio, obviously retiring from the NFL, great quarterback, handsome 38-year-old man, he gets up there and he does this press conference that was frankly one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen."

"That's a great message for young boys. 'Get up there and act like a girl and start blubbering like a baby."

Then, in her best impersonation of a crying toddler with its favorite toy taken away, she wah-wah-wah's while uttering in a mocking tone, "It's about me, it was never about me, but it is about me, bla, bla, bla" before returning to her regular voice and stating, "I could not believe what I was seeing."

My initial reaction is to become angry with women, and say, "One minute, you want us to be sensitive and in touch with our feelings, and the next, you're calling us women if we cry. Not fair, ladies. Please make up your mind ... because the next time an ex-boyfriend of yours calls you a naughty word, I won't know if you'll want me to defend your honor and beat him to death with a tire iron, or if you'll want me to go home and have a good cry with you."

Upon further review, however, I think the fact that Miss Ingraham works at FOX News disqualifies her from being a normal woman. I assume, like everyone else at FOX News, Miss Ingraham believes that the ideal man is a cross between John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, except not an actor, because too many actors are gay, so I'm not going to hold that against an entire gender. 

I'm still going to cry when I feel like it, and if you don't like that, I'll just shut down emotionally until your self-esteem plummets into the gutter because I don't every tell you that you're pretty anymore.

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