1. A twitter essay on Frank Miller & the Perpetual Crisis of Masculinity
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2. In an interview with Playboy, Frank Miller, creator of Sin City, said there is "a crisis of masculinity in modern times,"
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3. Oddly enough, Miller dated the "crisis of masculinity" to a Rod Stewart song from 1977 & called for return to 1940s gentleman.
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4. I say oddly because the idea that masculinity is in crisis is very old, going back several centuries.
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5. From a 2005 essay in
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6. 1899, Theodore Roosevelt complained about dangers of "emasculated mil-and-water moralities" as threaten American survival.
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7. 1914 Boy Scouts founded in part to combat emasculation and "to produce MEN of the future."
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8. 1926 Wyndam Lewis complains many male Europeans "congenitally unadapted for the rigours of manhood."
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9. 1958 Look Magazine article on "Decline of the American Male" says "scientists" worried "no longer the masculine, strong-minded man"
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10. I could go on like this for a long time with many examples from at least last 2 centuries (if not earlier).
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11. So, manhood is always in crisis. Why? Isn't rhetoric of crisis way of shoring of privilege from critique?
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