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If it’s easier for men to be courageous, how courageous is it - if one defines courage as doing what one must, in spite of one’s fears?
“In the age of sexual liberation, every woman not protected by poverty and extreme old age needs the courage to defend her virtue.”
What?
Oh, geez...
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One word, baby - childbirth. Every time I think I’m macho I consider what it would be like to pass a football...and I don’t mean with my hand. Thank you, Lord, for my Y chromosome... ;-)
Years ago in a discussion of women and combat I said that “it isn’t a question of if women are brave”, well the other guy asked “Why do you say that? Except for small individual stories of a mother and child, some tiny historical cases of a woman or a few women doing something in a war here or there, where do they display the widespread, everyday physical courage that men almost take for granted?”
He was right, men go to their deaths by the tens of thousands in an afternoon, in ruthless wars where they fight on for years or jobs like mining and fishing where there is no glory, just work.
As men we know what our duty is from birth, to readily offer our lives for others and hopefully never reveal hesitation when going to our brutal deaths.
-- John Wayne
Mansfield's view of courage seems to emphacize the physical, when what is equally needed is moral courage and the willingness to take a stand (which may then become a need for physical courage).