Modern Manhood

tintedlipbalm · 2017-06-12T03:34:06+00:00

I linked this text as a suggested read in another thread but I think it can has its own post for discussion. Longish read from 18 years ago! And already criticizing the separation of the female and the feminine; the male and the masculine.

Particularly insightful:

You can make men pretend to be less dominant and less aggressive; you can make them pretend to accept a subordinate role in domestic life and a dependent position in society. But deep down, in the instinctual flow of life that is manhood itself, they will rebel. The unhappiness of men, Tiger argues, comes from this deep and unconfessed conflict between social pretense and sexual necessity.

littleeggwyf · 2017-06-13T11:06:03+00:00

Thankyou for posting this, it is really interesting, I found the ending to be very hopeful:

And here, surely, lies our hope for the future. When women forge their own "gender identity," in the way the feminists recommend, they become unattractive to men—or attractive only as sex objects, not as individual persons. And when men cease to be gentlemen, they become unattractive to women. Sexual companionship then goes from the world. All that it needs to save young people from this predicament is for old-fashioned moralists to steal unobserved past their feminist guardians and whisper the truth into eager and astonished ears—the truth that gender is indeed a construct, but one that involves both sexes, acting in mutual support, if it is to be built successfully. In my experience, young people hear with great sighs of relief that the sexual revolution may have been a mistake, that women are allowed to be modest, and that men can make a shot at being gentlemen

I also started thinking that maybe some of the 'nice guy' thing is like a messed up version of a gentlemen where they're trying to obey feminist ideas? Like their actions make sense if women are exactly the same as men and don't want any unasked for male attention.

Title	Modern Manhood
Author	tintedlipbalm
Upvotes	19
Comments	6
Date	June 12, 2017 3:26 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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