If Conservatives Want To Defend Manliness,
They Better Know What It Means
Federalist,
by
John Daniel Davidson
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
1/30/2022 8:23:09 PM
There is a growing eagerness on the right to talk frankly about the crisis of masculinity in America, and to defend traditional manliness against an ascendant left that wants to destroy it. A robust defense of manliness is salutary, and long overdue. But it requires defining what manliness is, and what it is for, because not everyone on the right seems to know.
For some conservatives, the conversation about masculinity has gone completely off the rails.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/30/2022 8:36:58 PM (No. 1056207)
Don't bother. Men of courage, integrity and honor will define what manliness is. They exist everywhere in society, the military, the business world and they are not categorized or identified by race, income, home state or profession. Theirs is the only opinion that matters.
15 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 1/30/2022 8:56:54 PM (No. 1056221)
If you think it needs to be defined, you'd never understand even if I told you.
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
fhancock 1/30/2022 9:04:59 PM (No. 1056227)
Defend being a Gentleman...Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne...not some macho punka$$...
12 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/30/2022 9:06:41 PM (No. 1056228)
Excellent. We know real manliness when we see it and it has NOTHING to do with the preening seen after touchdowns and tackles or the violent vengeance paraded in our movies.
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 1/30/2022 9:11:18 PM (No. 1056233)
I know what it is.
11 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
downnout 1/30/2022 9:45:42 PM (No. 1056247)
Manliness….ah yes, manliness is a trait lacking in leftist men.
10 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
sanspeur 1/30/2022 10:47:29 PM (No. 1056273)
manliness : Trump has it , zhou merely a punk
Reagan has it soetero , a fraud
Schwartzkopf had it , milley not a bit
de capria doesn’t , Clint E does
Clooney dross , Sinatra real gold
Bannon is a man , schiffty only bug juice
9 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 1/30/2022 11:26:32 PM (No. 1056296)
Well, it ain't George Bush or Lindsey Graham.
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/30/2022 11:36:21 PM (No. 1056303)
Has anyone read what Davidson has to say?
1 person likes this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/30/2022 11:55:04 PM (No. 1056313)
Any dude using his full middle name doesn’t get manliness!
1 person likes this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/30/2022 11:59:50 PM (No. 1056314)
I kind of wondered where he was going until he rightfully nailed the insufferable eunuch David French.
When Ralph Nader finally exits the stage, French will ascend to the position of America's National Nag. Nobody will listen to him either.
1 person likes this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
PChristopher 1/31/2022 12:16:17 AM (No. 1056321)
Real men don't change sexes.
9 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/31/2022 3:14:17 AM (No. 1056366)
The only true men living in this country come from the Seal Teams and Special Forces. Period. You know, the ones Joey is trying to dispose of by mandating those killer shots.
2 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
slsusnr 1/31/2022 4:03:11 AM (No. 1056376)
I suggest getting a copy of "The Five Marks of a Man" by Brian Tome.
0 people like this.
Don't be tempted to read the title of the article, and then go straight to the comments posted.
This is worth reading.
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/31/2022 5:55:14 AM (No. 1056426)
It is manly to have the courage to speak of your convictions. It is a shame that certain Republican women, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, have to step up to the plate, because too many wimpy repub men won’t.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/31/2022 7:33:12 AM (No. 1056463)
Two words: Lindsay Graham.
1 person likes this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
columba 1/31/2022 9:08:49 AM (No. 1056535)
Manliness means stepping in to help those in need, whether it’s a woman being harassed or a stranger whose car has broken down. It means risking your own safety to protect someone being attacked, instead of just filming the attack on your phone and posting it online.
Manliness means marrying and remaining faithful to the same woman for the rest of your life here, and raising a family with her. It means working whatever hours and at whatever job in order to provide for that family. It means going to church every Sunday, whether you feel like it or not, to pass your faith on to your children. It means getting up in the middle of the night to feed a colicky baby. It means taking your two-year-old daughter to swim class and singing all the songs — your own sense of dignity be damned.
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
JimJr 1/31/2022 10:51:10 AM (No. 1056661)
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
John Wayne as John Bernard Books in "The Shootist"
0 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/31/2022 10:55:33 AM (No. 1056670)
I'm old now but I can say I did my 'manly' part raising four children. I went to defend what I believed was right in a foreign country would I do it again? No not for the ungrateful people here when I returned. just my wife and home mean everything to me now. Manly doesn't mean a ripped body it's like window dressing. Treating others like you wish to be treated, when you're scared you still act and push on. Most of these things you learned from your father that's how I know.
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/31/2022 11:07:33 AM (No. 1056691)
I am who I am...
1 person likes this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 1/31/2022 11:11:05 AM (No. 1056700)
stop counting carbs and wearing skinny jeans
stop wearing stocking caps when its over 32 degrees
do a pushup
you are not your mothers' best friend
2 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 1/31/2022 12:21:31 PM (No. 1056785)
Pajama Boy it's not
2 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/1/2022 3:44:23 AM (No. 1057437)
Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott are not and have never been married, and they're both at least 60 years old. . .
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