Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Manliness and Sensivity
I personally think that a person can never be equally manly and sensitive. Most of the time, in my personal experience, men who are manly are not sensitive at all. Very rarely do I meet a person who is both manly and sensitive. So I guess I would agree with Mansfield in that the two qualities are not compatible. I do not know part of why these two qualities rarely exist in the same person but I think that part of it is because society expects you to be a certain way and maybe there is some other reason. When I think of these two qualities, I think of them being exact opposites, and I think that is partly because of the people that I know that are either very masculine or sensitive think badly of the other. I think this is a really hard question, I do not really know how to explain why they can never seem to exist together.
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Kendal,
I think Mansfield has some valid points about the two qualities, manliness and sensitiveness, are not compatible, as you mentioned. He points out that if the two were equal, they would be interchangeable. But if that were the case, there would be no need for manliness. That would then make a woman be as good as a man - thus leading to no difference between the two.
So i think in that sense, the two are incompatible. However, I feel that woman should be able to do manly jobs and men should be allowed to have their share of 'soft' moments. It just doesn't seem right that a they can't do both.
Good job!
Kendal,
You have good points. It would be hard to find someone who is both manly and sensitive at the same time, because like you said most people do find them to be the exact opposite. So, how can they exist together? I believe they can, but it would take people believe that to be manly you have to be sensitive at times. It's this concept of what manliness is. Like Lamags said, how do we know the blue chair is blue? Hell, if no one ever told you it was blue it could be green or yellow. It is the common believe that blue is blue so we call it blue. If to be manly you can't show any 'softer' emotions, then manliness and sensitivity can never exist. I agree with your points though and I feel that is the common belief of most.
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