DOES BRITAIN NEED MORE 'MANLY MEN'?
British boys are suffering from a lack of masculine role models who exhibit old-fashioned values of bravery and resourcefulness, according to the historian Neil Oliver.
Sir Edmund Hilary (left), Colonel John Hunt and Sherpa
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“Manly men… have been hunted to extinction in the British Isles,” claims Mr Oliver, who regrets the decline of the “stiff upper lip” among today’s boys.
He has written a book , Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys, which revives historic acts of bravery from the Battle of Thermopylae to Robert F Scott's expedition to the South Pole.
Do you agree that Britain suffers from a dearth of ‘manly men’? How have male role models changed in recent years? Which public figures in modern Britain should boys aspire to?
(Daily Mail)
I blame the women who nag their other halfs into become more girlie. The majority of women I know try to groom their husbands/partners into being a David Beckham clone!
Bring back the rough and rugged look.