On "Manliness"
Here is a fascinating profile of Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield -- who has bravely written a book on "Manliness".
It isn't a gender thing; Professor Manfield points to one of my heroes, Margaret Thatcher, as a woman who exemplifies the finest qualities of manliness.
In the piece, Professor Mansfield comments:
What you see today at Harvard and elsewhere are a lot of liberal males who are trying to make women happy by trying to treat them as if they weren't women." "And that," says the man who never misses the chance to open a door for a woman or help her put on her coat, "doesn't work very well."
Wise man.
It isn't a gender thing; Professor Manfield points to one of my heroes, Margaret Thatcher, as a woman who exemplifies the finest qualities of manliness.
In the piece, Professor Mansfield comments:
What you see today at Harvard and elsewhere are a lot of liberal males who are trying to make women happy by trying to treat them as if they weren't women." "And that," says the man who never misses the chance to open a door for a woman or help her put on her coat, "doesn't work very well."
Wise man.
posted by LadybugUSA at 1:08 PM
1 Comments:
Exactly Carol, manliness is not about being patriarchal, it is being strong, polite and even submissive in the act of opening doors and helping with coats or chairs. It is a sign of full respect for our lady friends or even strangers. I am not hesitant to hold or open a door for anyone and if that someone is special to me I intend to go the extra step. This is a sad loss to our society the feminism has brought upon us, chivalry is very cool and needs to be be returned to our learnings as young adults, it is natural and needed in a civil society.
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