The Wedding
I had the privilege of attending my sister’s wedding recently; this gave me almost an entire day to observe over 70 people of different sexes outside their natural habitat and interacting with each other. The assignment was to do this over a 3 days period, but on either flank of this wedding I was trapped in an SUV for 24 hours. Luckily the wedding and reception gave me THE observation to use with this paper.
I have 1 obvious message of communicated gender, and while I only have 1, I think the magnitude of this message not only resonates with everyone, but it deserving of its own story, not to be shared with 2-3 others. My sister Elizabeth has committed her life to another in joint matrimony forever until they both shall part. …show more content…
A wedding is a show of the bride anyway, so she was the center of everyone’s attention. When my sister began her walk down the aisle my wife preferred to look at the groom. I was a blubbering mess when my wife began down the aisle and my wife at this moment was looking to the groom to see his reaction. Chris, my sisters now husband, is a manly man, not in stature, but as society unfortunately grades men he would receive an A. He drinks hard liquor, owns too many guns, likes to go fishing, drive fast cars, wear sleeveless shirts with naked women and low riders on them he’s what society would call a typical man or worse. At this moment, Chris wasn’t that hardnosed, hard talking bro, he managed to choke back all but 2 tears as he let his emotions known. I had never seen Chris cry before, not even when he stumbled drunkenly into a searing hot barbeque a couple years ago on Thanksgiving. The barbarians would and did argue that he is crying as he sees his freedom diminish with every step my sister took down that aisle. I know exactly the emotion that is coursing through him, he sees the culmination and finality of a relationship hard fought for becoming sealed with… as cliché’ as it is… a kiss. Why can’t men just cry when they want to cry? Why did he have to choke back a gallon worth of tears of elation? Well, that isn’t what being a man is to society. I feel that a real man can and should cry if the time merits it. The unmanly part of crying is not that you shed tears, but that you care that others have a problem with it. At least this is my take on
I had the privilege of attending my sister’s wedding recently; this gave me almost an entire day to observe over 70 people of different sexes outside their natural habitat and interacting with each other. The assignment was to do this over a 3 days period, but on either flank of this wedding I was trapped in an SUV for 24 hours. Luckily the wedding and reception gave me THE observation to use with this paper.
I have 1 obvious message of communicated gender, and while I only have 1, I think the magnitude of this message not only resonates with everyone, but it deserving of its own story, not to be shared with 2-3 others. My sister Elizabeth has committed her life to another in joint matrimony forever until they both shall part. …show more content…
A wedding is a show of the bride anyway, so she was the center of everyone’s attention. When my sister began her walk down the aisle my wife preferred to look at the groom. I was a blubbering mess when my wife began down the aisle and my wife at this moment was looking to the groom to see his reaction. Chris, my sisters now husband, is a manly man, not in stature, but as society unfortunately grades men he would receive an A. He drinks hard liquor, owns too many guns, likes to go fishing, drive fast cars, wear sleeveless shirts with naked women and low riders on them he’s what society would call a typical man or worse. At this moment, Chris wasn’t that hardnosed, hard talking bro, he managed to choke back all but 2 tears as he let his emotions known. I had never seen Chris cry before, not even when he stumbled drunkenly into a searing hot barbeque a couple years ago on Thanksgiving. The barbarians would and did argue that he is crying as he sees his freedom diminish with every step my sister took down that aisle. I know exactly the emotion that is coursing through him, he sees the culmination and finality of a relationship hard fought for becoming sealed with… as cliché’ as it is… a kiss. Why can’t men just cry when they want to cry? Why did he have to choke back a gallon worth of tears of elation? Well, that isn’t what being a man is to society. I feel that a real man can and should cry if the time merits it. The unmanly part of crying is not that you shed tears, but that you care that others have a problem with it. At least this is my take on