Comments on: Manliness – Confidence in a risky situation? http://beckscafe.com/2006/05/24/manliness-confidence-in-a-risky-situation/ Coffee, Chocolate & Love Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rebecca http://beckscafe.com/2006/05/24/manliness-confidence-in-a-risky-situation/#comment-42 Wed, 24 May 2006 19:45:55 +0000 http://sun.asmallorange.com/~becki/2006/05/24/manliness-confidence-in-a-risky-situation/#comment-42 You know Koan, when I read the source material for this I thought “I don’t get it”. Like you, I’d want to have the kind of character that he describes here regardless of gender. And how does being a woman negate the prospect of having confidence? I dunno. I know examples of men and women who have that particular quality trait, but why it’s manly seems to me to unnecessarily gender charge the point. Maybe I have to buy the book to find out what he’s getting at.

]]> By: Koan Bremner http://beckscafe.com/2006/05/24/manliness-confidence-in-a-risky-situation/#comment-41 Wed, 24 May 2006 14:23:41 +0000 http://sun.asmallorange.com/~becki/2006/05/24/manliness-confidence-in-a-risky-situation/#comment-41 Hmmm… well, my reaction is, why use a very gender-specific word like “manly” to describe a characteristic that I, for one, find admirable? Since “manly” is an adjectival derivative of “man”, why is it the case that “confidence in a risky situation” is an essential characteristic of a man, yet, by omission, *not* characteristic of a woman.

I’m not as politically correct as many – but I freely admit that I find the use of “manly” in this context to be laughable. I happen to think I have “confidence in a risky situation” – and anybody describing me as “manly” will find out just *how* confident…

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