The Death Of Manliness
Author : Ong Doen En
Description : A journal response to an article on "The Death of Manliness" by Harvey Mansfield in a local daily.
If Harvey Mansfield's sources of reference can be trusted, then manliness means "having a man's virtues of courage, frankness, etc". But how true of men is that definition today, in the 21st century society we live in? To some extent I agree with Harvey Mansfield in that manliness is indeed a dying virtue.
Most men generally still possess some qualities of manliness, but a great deal of these qualities are demonstrated not so much out of a compulsion to uphold honour and be faithful, but more out of selfish pride and a need for recognition. The truth is, what we perceive today to be manliness isn't true manliness at all - it's male chauvinism. Manliness is fast dying, and many men, though not particularly manly themselves, see the downfall of this virtue as the beginning of a revolution in which the roles of men and women get reversed.
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