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April 03, 2006
"Being a Man: Harvey Mansfield ponders the male of the species"
The women who champion Eve Ensler's production [The Vagina Monologues] are rightly concerned about the problem of male violence. But the known solution is to teach boys (and men) to be gentlemen. "A gentleman," says Mansfield, "is a man who is gentle out of policy, not weakness; he can be depended upon not to snarl or attack a woman when he has the advantage or feels threatened." And any gentlewoman or "lady" is naturally more suited for the task of civilizing a vulgar, barbarous male than a whole army of gender warriors.
"Being a Man: Harvey Mansfield ponders the male of the species," by Christina Hoff Sommers, a review of "Manliness," by Harvey C. Mansfield (Yale 2006), The Weekly Standard, April 10, 2006
Posted at April 3, 2006 08:17 AM | Categories: America
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