Comments on: Dr. Harvey Mansfield, Author of "Manliness"

By: Sweet Soul Caroline

Sweet Soul Caroline — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:14:01 +0000

The most manly of them all is still Bill Kristol, who likes people to go fight wars for him and all his tribe, (he has a tremendous amount of thumos) but lying is manly… when it's noble, noble in the sense that these are just human beings, or shall I say animals, wink.

Yes good book written by a woman with 'heightened consciousness' or a person (Monster? God? Wannabe Philosopher?) who truly enjoys their view from the sidelines, so full of contemplation with 'smooth womans hands.'

By: Paul Noonan

Paul Noonan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:13:29 +0000

There is no "contemporary manliness" — it is biological and does not change with the times — what changes is how we choose to employ manliness. Courage in the face of danger, detached reasoning under pressure, ruthlessnness and realism and tough insensitivity are all equally essential qualities today, so manliness is not redundant.

The problem is, feminists do not know whether to embrace manliness and emulate it or reject it and denigrate it. We have blurred gender differences too much. We no longer recognize the uniquely different contributions manliness and femininity have to make to society, as women are too eager to repress any notion of difference, hiding behind a false notion of "choice."

By: Dennis Naughton

Dennis Naughton — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:00:19 +0000

Dr. Mansfield's views are as much on the cutting edge of the contemporary idea of manliness as Dr. Freud's are on the cutting edge of contemporary psychology.