On the Waning Masculinity of Modern Man and the Misconceptions of the Concept
“By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?” —C.S. Lewis Masculinity. Just the term makes men and women in society think of something negative, toxic, or abhorrent. Like something out of the depths of hell, all-consuming all evil. But it's a misconception. Just like the quote above this text that you, my dear reader, read just a moment earlier. Perhaps you get the gist of the quote, or perhaps I got the interpretation wrong? But that is something you will have to decide for yourself. On the contrary, the C.S. Lewis quote above does not encourage men's weakness. It encourages men to not keep their emotions so tightly closed and bottled. Why? Because there will be a catastrophe if a man bottled up his emotions for so long without...