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manly

adjective as in like or befitting a man

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So they also cling to the image of the “Mommy,” the woman who is there to provide all the comfort and care that Daddy is too manly to offer.

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But all share a view that men are the oppressed ones in our society, supposedly denied their ability to bro out and be their full manly selves.

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The opposite, however, is what's happening: Trump's trade war is shutting down American factories that need foreign-sourced materials, as well as devastating other "manly" blue-collar jobs like truck driving and farming.

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In fact, I think those gendered stereotypes — Americans as virile and manly; Europeans as emasculated or effeminate — go back much further than that, and were inhaled by nearly all American men of Trump’s generation.

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He's always wanted a war so he could demonstrate his manly power to the world as a military leader but he is also a coward who would rather buy his way out of any jam.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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