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Perhaps there are women who use tears to manipulate people and get their own way, but those are people who generally will manipulate people by whatever means they have. Why should they ruin tears for the rest of us?
For a lot of people, like me, tears are the natural, honest response to something touching or emotional. When one of my friends tells me the story behind a tattoo that's particularly meaningful for her, I can't help but feel those emotions myself and start to tear up. I cry because I let myself empathize; and doesn't our world of corruption and capitalism and greed need a little more of that?
