Sometimes I Wonder If People Are Okay After All The Twisting And Turning They Do To Create Things That Doesnt Actually Exist - Tumblr Posts

I think the inherent problem with people who dislike Maddie because she “cries too much” is that they automatically relate crying to weakness. Despite everything they have seen on their screens and everything that has been implied, they truly believe that Maddie crying means she is some sort of fragile woman.

But Maddie is the opposite, she is strong willed, determined and powerful in the most amazing ways. She survived a sixteen year abusive relationship but before that, she survived the loss of her brother that she was never allowed to grieve and whilst her parents were wrapped up in their own loss, she raised her baby brother to be as kind, compassionate and as loving and open minded and open hearted as she is. She’s an empath, she wears her heart on her sleeve when it comes to everyone other than herself. She cries for other people but it doesn’t make her weak.

Maddie has hidden her trauma and her sadness for most of her life. She wasn’t allowed to cry for Daniel and the truth of her relationship with Doug would have remained behind closed doors for the most part. And she fought so damn hard to be where she is right now. When she cries at work it’s for someone else and she always moves onto the next call, she doesn’t sit there crying into the abyss, she helps someone else (as seen in the tsunami episode). She cries for her brother because she’s afraid of him being alone, she cries for Chimney and the man at the garage when she believes two men have died at the hands of her husband. She cries when she’s scared because why the hell shouldn’t she? But at the same time as she’s crying she’s checking to make sure Josh is okay in taking of dispatch.

Maddie Buckley is a woman who has been through hell and back more than once, who only ever wants to help people despite her own pain and who feels things deeply but never lets it impact another person because she is so inherently strong and good and kind. Her crying isn’t a sign of weakness but of her strength after years of suppressing her emotions and I will not hear another person talk about how “weak” she is. Women and men have every right to cry as much as they damn well please and not have their entire character and strength called into question because of it.