After a brief discussion of political correctness in higher education, Weiss makes the following statements:
"Politically correct, inadequate education, along with the decline of
Now, we might wonder if it is true that there are "no models of manhood" today. Or is it just in parts of American culture that are under the influence of political correctness that there are "no models of manhood"? After all, the political correctness police have not been publishing books with titles like Models of Manhood.
Because the Greek word "andreia" means both courage and manly, John F. Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage (1956) can still serve as a compilation of models of manhood. But of course there are also other forms of courage besides political courage.
Ong does not compile examples of manhood. Moreover, he would readily acknowledge that our Western cultural conditioning has included white men enslaving African Americans and also denigrating women. However, after he has noted the obvious moral failings of many white men in Western culture, he nevertheless celebrates the agonistic spirit of men not only in Western culture but also in all other cultures around the world. The agonistic spirit is at the heart of manhood -- the lived experience of men.
No doubt American men can learn much about themselves and their culturally conditioned views of masculinity and manhood from the critiques advanced by feminists and by other critics. So I see the give-and-take between American men and their feminist and other critics as part of the emerging sense of masculinity and manhood that is itself part of the emerging shift in our consciousness that Ong has told us as earlier as the 1960s we are undergoing in our contemporary culture.
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