How And Why To Appreciate The Masculine Qualities In Our Men
Modern feminists want us to believe that everything that makes men men is simply a social construct — and a negative one at that. As Buzzfeed writer Beatriz Serrano says, it “sucks that we live under a system that forces men to be strong, manly, and powerful, and that tells us that a sensitive man is weak.”
If it’s wrong to like strong, manly, powerful men, I don’t want to be right! But even those of us who don’t identify as modern feminists sometimes find the things men do baffling and even hurtful. Why can’t he just tell me what he’s feeling? Why can’t he just listen to my problems instead of trying to fix them? Why doesn’t he compliment me on how I look, or the way I’ve rearranged the furniture, or how I put a new centerpiece on the table? Is it really so hard?