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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12. Aggrieved privilege sees itself as the victim, sees itself as being in crisis, and thereforw in need of reasserting its power.
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13. To return to Frank Miller: perhaps the most pervasive theme in his work, going back to earliest Daredevils, is self-pity.
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14. I recently re-read -- don't ask me why -- Batman Year One. My God, was Bruce Wayne such a simpering cry-baby, always nursing wounds
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15. Superheroes have long had self-pitying side. But Miller amped up that dimension and tied it to rightist fear of "masculinity in crisis"
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16. As @UOJim usefully points out, there is a diversity of responses to being besieged in Miller's work.
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17. In the better work -- Born Again -- the experience of persecution/siege leads chastened hero to wisdom.
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18. In the weaker work, hero under siege merely triumphs by assertion of raw will/muscle.
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