Manhood

“Maximus defines himself by the duties he fulfills…. He does not aggrandize himself. Any glory he gets is by fulfilling his duties to those to whom he is responsible. He isn’t trying to impose his will. He is trying to do the will of others in accordance with justice.” - Current

“I conclude that men should be both strong and gentle—tough and tender, authoritative and compassionate, brick and velvet.” - Andy Naselli

“I don’t mean that magnanimity is unique to men or that women are not also called to this trait. After all, Witherspoon calls it a Christian virtue. But I do think magnanimity is a virtue particularly befitting to manhood, and that manhood bereft of magnanimity is especially lamentable.” - DeYoung

“C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a collection of lectures he delivered out of concern for how the British education system, which was just one presentment of a larger societal disease, was inculcating subjectivity and ‘values’ unmoored from any objective notion of value, order, and virtue.

“The average American man dies five years before the average American woman, in part because of increased death rates among males from opioids, alcohol, and suicide.” - Intellectual Takeout

“There goes my attempt to raise pacifist, nurturing sons, I thought as they grew to embody many boy stereotypes.” CT

“society and culture have increasingly promoted a full-pronged infantilization of modern man”

”’Man-boys’ aren’t first and foremost struggling with being men, but with being human.”

After Steubenville: 25 Things Our Sons need to know about Manhood