sports heroes, too many to name; Margaret Thatcher,Read more at location 11
Harry S. Truman, who said "the buck stops here"; Humphrey Bogart,Read more at location 12
courageous police and firemen in New York City on September 11, 2001.Read more at location 13
Manliness seeks and welcomes drama and prefers times of war, conflict, and risk. Manliness brings change or restores order at moments when routine is not enough, when the plan fails, when the whole idea of rational control by modern science develops leaks. Manliness is the next-to-last resort, before resignation and prayer. Read more at location 14
We today inhabit a society with a very new justice, long overdue: the gender-neutral society. In this new society your sex does not determine your rights, your duties, or your place.Read more at location 15
By the end I hope to convince skeptical readers - above all, educated women -of the reverse: that irrational manliness deserves to be endorsed by reason. Read more at location 19
The good - the manly rescuers on 9/11 - seems necessary to us, just as the bad - the manly attackers on that day-seems very unnecessary. But can you have the good without the bad?Read more at location 22
If it is good, maybe that's because it's the only remedy for the trouble it causes.Read more at location 24
For the most part, I take the side of common sense. I like its forthright defense of stereotypes regarding the sexes.Read more at location 25
the two sciences that treat manliness, social psychology and evolutionary biology,Read more at location 26
On the whole, however, I am quite critical of the scientific understanding of manliness, whether in social psychology or evolutionary biology. These sciences see manliness at its lowest as aggression and altogether fail to consider the phenomenon of manly assertiveness.Read more at location 30
And science does not even understand aggression correctly or fully because it is completely ignorant of the phenomenon of thumos,Read more at location 34
Thumos is a quality of spiritedness, shared by humans and animals, that induces humans, and especially manly men, to risk their lives in order to save their lives.Read more at location 35
As manliness is made out of that paradox, it is, to say the least, more complicated than the simplistic drives of aggression, domination, and self-preservation to which science tries to reduce manliness.Read more at location 37
assertiveness and thumos as features of manliness,Read more at location 38
the virtue of courage or perhaps of gentlemanliness;Read more at location 52
I do not make it my business to lament the decline of the gentleman in our day. I might agree with those who do lament it, but the gentleman presupposes manlinessRead more at location 53
The difficulty is not to make the man into a gentleman but to know what is a man.Read more at location 55
Because most studies do not address the levels of manliness, they do not get beyond a very elementary understanding of nature versus nurture.Read more at location 57
I try to do justice to the scientists dressed in white who say manliness is nature and to the advocates of deconstruction and creativity in their rumpled suits or black jeans who say it is nurture.Read more at location 61
The crucial point missed by both sides in the dispute is that nature and nurture cooperate as well as conflict.Read more at location 62
