Barbara Kay: The Crying Game Rife in Our ‘Feelings’ Culture Is Nothing but Manipulative Kitsch
“Only once that I can recall did I mention in a column that some or other injustice had caused me to weep. My excellent editor at the time removed the allusion, counselling me quite sternly, “Never ever use your own emotional reaction as a rhetorical weapon in a column. It’s lazy, and irrelevant to the case you’re supposed to be building.” I could see at once that he was right, and never did so again. The lesson had the effect, over the years since, of sharpening my radar for instances of “the crying game” so frequently engaged in by identity politics hacks.”