The old ‘qualities’ of masculinity – a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance – have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.
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The old ‘qualities’ of masculinity – a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance – have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.