Are Men Capable of Admiring Women?

The Grio ^ | Nov 30, 2022 | Touré

[nickcarraway]

I don't think this is true. I would name Marie Curie, Jane Austen, and George Eliot.

[EEGator]

Same on Curie, but Hedy Lamarr and Mary Shelley.

That’s for admiration. I don’t want to “be like” any woman.

[Fido969]

I immediately saw her point.

Yes, I would not want to give up my man parts. No way.

[x]

When I think back to the pictures I had on my wall as a kid, there were lots of photos of John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, and Stefan Edberg, and maybe one photo of Martina Navratilova. Even in the culture of a sport where women were treated as equals, I still didn’t see many women I could look up to.

Many men were fans of Chris Evert and even more are fans of those young Russian women tennis players whose names they can't pronounce.

Seriously, though, men are capable of admiring women.

Toure must be going through a dry spell.

[T.B. Yoits]

...literally billions of them; every woman who takes care of her family.

[Kenny500c]

Could not name 3 men I admire either.

[Larry Lucido]

Margaret Thatcher

Jeanne Kirkpatrick

Kari Lake

[Sicon]

This isn't all that complicated. Men who identify as men, are not going to be interested in being like a woman, no matter how famous/brilliant/successful that woman is/was. They will instinctively desire to be like great MEN, because they themselves are a MAN.

For most feminine women who haven't been polluted by feminism, the same holds true. They instinctively admire and want to be like famous/brilliant/successful WOMEN. In some cases, being a "successful" woman might have little, if anything, to do with career accomplishments (gasp!).

This is just more identity politics b.s.

[FoxInSocks]

That’s a bias in myself that I’m just now noticing.

The only white person on his list is Elizabeth Warren, and she’s an Indian.

[Sicon]

And as others have noted, there is a difference between “admiring” and “wanting to be like”.

[nickcarraway]

They didn’t see be like, they said admire. That’s why it said, that you are not related to, i.e. one’s mother or grandmother.

[conserv8]

Just from experience on this site,

Somebody posts an account of a woman standing up for principles.
She is generally admired by all.

[rlmorel]

It’s BS.

[Tommy Revolts]

Who the f*ck wrote this bullshit?

[Retrofitted]

Mother Grace (Grace Murray Hopper -- she changed my life), Marie Curie, Margaret Thatcher, Audrey Hepburn... I could keep going.

But this author seems to be referring to only "women of color" so I guess those white chicks are out since there is nothing admirable about whites.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Noah’s wife, Joan of Arc

[Rocco DiPippo]

Beat me to it.

[xp38]

Yeah I’m gonna take seriously someone who admires Warren and M. Obama and talks about toxic masculinity.

[Jess Kitting]

Noah’s wife, Joan of Arc

Noah's wife was Joan of Arc?

[TexasFreeper2009]

In fairness, I dont “want to be like any men either” LOL