"A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."
-Camille Paglia
Do you think that modern relationships fail men in their need to maintain their masculinity? Changing diapers, coochooing kids, being wife's emotional depository, soccer dads... Don't you think this is all inauthentic? Don't you think our divorce rates show it? Why has marital equality become the emasculation of men?
2007-02-11 07:57:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
interesting
2007-02-11 08:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Gabe M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure, men and women are different. Women have career ambitions as well as men. I never heard of a woman feeling the need to 'prove something' by ice-climbing alone without experience in winter. Men feel the need to trek the world, take huge risks, join the military, prove their value, be heroic. This is why there will never be as many female firefighters, members of combat units, police officers, security guards, Iron Man athletes, etc. as there are men.
2007-02-11 08:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by wife of Ali Pasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. If there is validity to the excerpt, I don't think it is primary. I think the primary thing in a relationship is to give and provide one another with what is needed.
2007-02-11 08:03:10 · answer #3 · answered by the Boss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋