“ The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes. ”
No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.
~ Jack Donovan
If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction
When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be—it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can’t mean everything, and it has always meant something
