hi #poliscitwitter can any political theorists help me understand why Harvey Mansfield's "Manliness" is an academic text rather than, as it appears, a combination of some deeply homoerotic fan fiction and the kind of manifesto you usually find along with several bodies?
a few excerpts, for the uninitiated... 🧵
“Besides being weaker than men’s, women’s bodies are made to attract and to please men.” #scholarship #theory
“When women drive cars and shoot guns, when everything conspires to equalize them with men, the fact that women remain weaker is all the more notable.” #rigorous #harvard
“One has only to think of Jane Austen to be assured that women have a sense of humor, distributed in lesser quantities to lesser brains. Women do make jokes, only not so noticeably as men.” #what #thefuck
"In the case of sexual promiscuity, the gender-neutral society by giving women an equal privilege makes it harder for them to say no, thus facilitating the aggressive fantasies of males and aggravating the sex difference in that regard”
#grammar #huh
“Women are more likely to want to nurture, as shown in studies confirming that girls like dolls and boys like cars and guns” #l #o #l
“When men do think about marital bliss, they focus on lots of sex rather than the mere kissing and hugging that women prefer.” #citation #needed
"And if women consciously manipulate men for their purposes, men dominate women for theirs. A woman may look as if she is surrendering, but in truth she is indulging her relational aggression" #having #a #normal #one
"To resist rape a woman needs more than martial arts and more than the police; she needs a certain ladylike modesty enabling her to take offense at unwanted encroachment."
"Do women become shrill when they assert themselves and thus fail to impress others with their authority? In my experience it is difficult for a man who is attracted to a woman not to find her cute, rather than intimidating, when she gets angry"
women can have the company of a gentleman, as a treat
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