Men Don't Cry During Titanic

I can't believe he didn't cry during Titanic! Do men even have feelings? Snickle slid the last few meters to the fuel tank and crawled underneath. As rounds pinged off the metal above him, he proceeded exactly as the boss had told him. Plant the wirey thing, press the big red button, and wait until the ticking stops. He couldn't help but smile to himself at a job well done. Maybe when he got back to base, they might finally be nice to him.

A four-panel meme contrasts two women discussing a man who did not cry during Titanic with a tiny soldier crawling under a fuel tank to plant a bomb, while a rugged black-and-white profile looks on. The joke is that the women interpret emotional restraint as a lack of feelings, while the absurd war-story panel presents the man as a hardened soldier carrying out a dangerous mission. It is used as a reaction to jokes about stoicism, masculine emotions, or unexpectedly extreme explanations for someone’s behavior.

• @eternalclassic / 1089 2021-10-09