The Forgotten Virtue of Affability
A counter-cultural way to become more masculine
In Shakespeare’s great study of the warrior archetype, Coriolanus, when the renowned Roman general’s mother asks him to temper his severity for peacetime politics, he responds,
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.
Mildness and masculinity, he thinks, are opposed.
Indeed, psychological research sho…
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