Professor Harvey C Mansfield has published a book called Manliness, which is an intellectual call to arms for men to reassert their power and identity, encouraging them to recapture the old manly values we used to love such as decisiveness and assertiveness. It's all terribly exciting and the word on the street is we're looking at a return to raw, old-fashioned manliness. Or you're a lady petrolhead like me, which means you like proper men not sissy boys.īut the good news is that apparently we are on the verge of a 'menaissance'. The chances are, if you are reading this road test, then you have petrol pumping through your veins already, which immediately puts you in the man camp, miles away from those deeply unsexy metrosexuals. But what is the world coming to when two huntin', shootin' and fishin' and kissin' cowboys are more butch than a superhero? Yes, that's right, I got turned on by two gay cowboys. In fact, I realised just how weary I was when the only male characters in the movies who tickled my fancy were in Brokeback Mountain. Just not very many of them.Įven Superman has gone sensitive. In the pink corner we have the metrosexuals, and in the blue corner we have the men. Now I am using it to illustrate the division in modern menfolk. I've wheeled out this analogy in a variety of heated debates.
You can play on the porch with the puppies, or you can run in the yard with the dogs.