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slutslave4u -> RE: Forced Masculinity, Take 2 (2/19/2010 8:40:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SolangeRichards
I've long thought that the archetype of American Masculinity was John Wayne. I mean this with who he was on screen, not to be confused with the guy he was in real life, just that epitome of the American guy he was in the movies. No real need I think to enumerate the traits, we're talking about John Wayne here...
In his final film, The Shootist, he makes a statement, a credo for his character, a credo in fact for all of his characters, he says,
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
When the film came out, I thought to myself that this statement really cleaved to that which is a man. The Duke is not asking, he's not hoping, he's just simply saying what has to happen. For him, and for all men
Now, maybe I extrapolated some stuff, but I took that statement by Wayne, and came to the conclusion that a man was in charge of his life, and a man decided how he was going to live, and as long as he respected those very simple rules that Wayne's character laid out, he was a man in charge of his destiny and a man in control of his masculinity.
I took the lesson to heart, and here I am now. A man, in control of his destiny, doing what I think is right for me. I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
Really, isn't that just about as masculine as it gets?
I had all but forgotten that movie and that quote, thank you........excellent
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