There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.