Manliness resurgence
Manliness is back? Did we go someplace?
A question of manliness | the Daily Mail
There is, apparently, a resurgence of manliness in America. Superman has returned to the big screen and unshaven, testosterone-charged film stars such as Colin Farrell no longer look socially marginalised.
Manliness is not braggadocio. It is stoicism, self-respect, decisiveness, assertiveness.
A straw poll of the wives and mothers in my small Kent community offered up the following characteristics. A real man is chivalrous and emotionally robust and mature. He is modest, does not wear his heart on his sleeve, and is dutiful to wife or lover, and to family. A real man provides for and protects those he loves.
Men must learn to reclaim manliness, not in the machismo mould of previous generations, but in a modern incarnation that will serve as an anchor in the shifting sands of today’s gender politics.
I don’t know Martin Newland of the Daily Mail, but he writes well. I’m sure he will be ostracized for his views. I can only hope that his prediction is true:
The metrosexual, that urbanised, sensitive, emotionally and physically androgynous model of 21st-century manhood, is dead.
Men are men always have been. We need to throw off the machismo dominocrap and snagishness of the past and be men. Through those two extremes of stupidity men lived as others thought they should live. Men need to stop that.
You know the most logical way to define if you are a man? Look between your legs. Vets do it too :)
I hope we can see confident men who don’t have to control. Men who are honest with their feelings. Men who can express feelings beyond anger. And i’m happy that we have a lot of cause for hope. It’s happening, it’s being worked on and there isn’t much impediment to it getting better.
Comment by Trias — July 13, 2006 @ 1:44 pm