Tag: Manliness

• October 5, 2013

  Addendum: Sweetness of temper

  Thus I wrote yesterday evening to my Aleksandra: In the opening of Book I of his Meditations, Marcus gives thanks to his grandfather first and then to the biological father he never knew. In his grandfather, he sees an example of ‘sweetness of temper.’ In the father he never knew, that of modesty and manliness. Combine these three in…
• October 4, 2013

  How can a man embody manliness after three waves of feminism? (Part 3)

  We are inquiring into the man who embodies manliness. Manliness is a disposition that is neither Brawny (and hot-headed) nor Sensitive (and frail). If it is hard to come up with living examples of men who are manly and graceful (Cary Grant, perchance, though he is dead?), the reason could be that few seem to…
• October 3, 2013

  How can a man embody manliness after three waves of feminism? (Part 2)

  Two modern male figures show us, respectively, excess and defect. The Brawny Man, uncouth and with a fiery temper, distorts the right disposition of manliness just as much as the Sensitive Man, who collects vintage records and has a soft, pliable body. One’s powers of observation needn’t be taxed in order to perceive that many…
• October 1, 2013

  How can a man embody manliness after three waves of feminism? (Part 1)

  First wave feminism, beginning in the late nineteenth century, called into question the idea that women were especially well-suited for running household affairs and thus were ill-suited to taking an active part in the affairs of the city. Hence, the shift effected: from private anonymity to public visibility. Around the 1960s during the Vietnam Era,…