What a great piece. Thank you.
Mansfied represents the best of "old" Harvard.
And better than most anybody I've read on this matter, he articulates the intrinsic flaw in "equality" between the sexes. I would add that it is not even what men and women want. Post-modernism and its ugly stepchild political correctness have driven home "needs" which are not needs at all, and are even contrary to our happiness. (None of this has anything to do with fairness or justice.)
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Originally posted by gaijindabe
Achilles, though, is Mr. Mansfield's model of a manly man. "He challenged his boss, Agamemnon, who had taken his girlfriend from him. He didn't so much make a complaint against him as to . . . say that what Agamemnon had done was the act of an inferior person, and that only true heroes, the men of virtue like Achilles, are fit to rule." In other words, Achilles raised the stakes and resolved to defend a cause larger than himself--the manly action par excellence.
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There you have it. Go back to the Greeks if you want to know great men. Read Homer, Mr. Summers.