[Billthedrill]

''I think you have to say it is a cry of desperation," says Robin Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at Berkeley. ''Here is guy who has seen his male privilege vanish as society became more equal. He wants to turn the clock back."

Facing down the bad guys is hardly what I would categorize as "male privilege" but then an expert on "framing" such as Lakoff would know all about deliberate mischaracterization in order to cling to an outmoded feminist paradigm.

[MineralMan]

The character of Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is, for me, the epitome of how a man should be. It reminded me so much of my father that it was uncanny.