It seems to me that "manliness" is a concept used mainly to either castigate or manipulate male behaviour.
I'm thinking about adding the phrase "man up" to fugly's thread. Does anyone second this motion?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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