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TechnographColumn: Manliness: Is it really a virtue?
By John Bambanek
Posted: 6/23/06 Section: Opinions
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Manhood involves being able to relate to a woman as a human person, not as a collection of a preferred set of genitalia. Real men can realize that women have intelligence and talents that are useful outside the home. They leave pornography to the boys.
They live lives with a purpose. While boys are running around looking for ways to amuse themselves, men are at the very least providing for their families.
More often, they are pursuing some noble end. The Founding Fathers were men. Hugh Hefner is a boy.
They love their wives. By love, I mean completely and for reasons going far beyond sexual gratification.
They don't view marriage as a relationship where they are recipients of benefits, but as a relationship where they invest their heart and soul into the woman they love, who in turn invests her heart and soul back.
Manhood should not be confused with boyishness and at least one day a year society seems to know the difference. Manliness is a virtue and a pillar of any good society and it is about time we stopped idolizing boyishness.
They live lives with a purpose. While boys are running around looking for ways to amuse themselves, men are at the very least providing for their families.
More often, they are pursuing some noble end. The Founding Fathers were men. Hugh Hefner is a boy.
They love their wives. By love, I mean completely and for reasons going far beyond sexual gratification.
They don't view marriage as a relationship where they are recipients of benefits, but as a relationship where they invest their heart and soul into the woman they love, who in turn invests her heart and soul back.
Manhood should not be confused with boyishness and at least one day a year society seems to know the difference. Manliness is a virtue and a pillar of any good society and it is about time we stopped idolizing boyishness.
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