Here's a quotation from a US President that both exemplifies and problematises masculinity:
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
― John Quincy Adams
(Actually, having done some further research, the attribution to J.Q. Adams may be erroneous. It seems that his father, also President, John Adams, wrote the following to his wife:
"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce, and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine."
Letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780)
@handyandy saidAn able general, but a weak president.
Ulysses S. Grant
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/ulysses-s-grant/
Jackson gets my vote: he confronted his assailant. (Any modern president would get whisked away by the Secret Service).
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On January 30, 1835, what is believed to be the first attempt to kill a sitting president of the United States occurred just outside the United States Capitol. When Jackson was leaving through the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter from England, aimed a pistol at Jackson, which misfired. Lawrence then pulled out a second pistol, which also misfired. Historians believe the humid weather contributed to the double misfiring. Jackson, infuriated, attacked Lawrence with his cane, until others present, including Davy Crockett, fearing that the president would beat Lawrence to a pulp, intervened to restrain and disarm Lawrence.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
@moonbus saidBush Obama and Clinton were ‘so cool and masculine because they wore flight jackets!!!
Jackson gets my vote: he confronted his assailant. (Any modern president would get whisked away by the Secret Service).
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On January 30, 1835, what is believed to be the first attempt to kill a sitting president of the United States occurred just outside the United States Capitol. When Jackson was leaving through the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Repre ...[text shortened]... ulp, intervened to restrain and disarm Lawrence.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
My man Trump, more the man, did not feel the need to fake it. I didn’t like Trump the man either, but he beat out those 3. Can’t picture him in the fake jacket.
I wore one yesterday and not one chick looked my way!,
@rajk999 saidYou do realise that relatively rich ‘straight’ men have been going to these places to get their hands on young flesh ( including children ) for centuries.
Quite a few. In the last couple decades there are many mulattos around. Often there are old white ladies with young black boys [no kids involved] no doubt a cougar relationship, with just providing Euros for sex. Either way, Im not part of that society.
I’m much more comfortable with older women sharing some of their wealth with younger men than I am with the above.
@averagejoe1 said“ I wore one yesterday and not one chick looked my way!”
Bush Obama and Clinton were ‘so cool and masculine because they wore flight jackets!!!
My man Trump, more the man, did not feel the need to fake it. I didn’t like Trump the man either, but he beat out those 3. Can’t picture him in the fake jacket.
I wore one yesterday and not one chick looked my way!,
😂😂 them jackets are cool but nothing is that cool
@averagejoe1 saidWhat, Mr. Bone Spur? Who didn’t “get it“ why a soldier would stand his ground and get killed so his comrades could make an orderly retreat and fight another day. Nope, Trump’s a sore loser and loud-mouthed wimp.
Bush Obama and Clinton were ‘so cool and masculine because they wore flight jackets!!!
My man Trump, more the man, did not feel the need to fake it. I didn’t like Trump the man either, but he beat out those 3. Can’t picture him in the fake jacket.
I wore one yesterday and not one chick looked my way!,
@moonbus saidWhy you cant say that about Trump because you have hated him since you rode down the escalator, and probably have forgotten why !You can’t qualify!!!! 😋😋😋
What, Mr. Bone Spur? Who didn’t “get it“ why a soldier would stand his ground and get killed so his comrades could make an orderly retreat and fight another day. Nope, Trump’s a sore loser and loud-mouthed wimp.
Why did all of you hate him before he was even coming down the escalator beginning to run for president?
@averagejoe1 saidBecause he is, at best, an ignorant, petulant, vengeful, narcissistic, self-important, incompetent demagogue.
Why you cant say that about Trump because you have hated him since you rode down the escalator, and probably have forgotten why !You can’t qualify!!!! 😋😋😋
Why did all of you hate him before he was even coming down the escalator beginning to run for president?
@averagejoe1 saidI don’t hate, but despise him. Because he’s a conman. Read Cohen’s book. Trump’s got more skeletons in the closet than a Harvey Coreman / Vincent Price movie.
Why you cant say that about Trump because you have hated him since you rode down the escalator, and probably have forgotten why !You can’t qualify!!!! 😋😋😋
Why did all of you hate him before he was even coming down the escalator beginning to run for president?
@averagejoe1 saida real man would have taken the stairs
Why you cant say that about Trump because you have hated him since you rode down the escalator, and probably have forgotten why !You can’t qualify!!!! 😋😋😋
Why did all of you hate him before he was even coming down the escalator beginning to run for president?
@averagejoe1 saidReal men don't feel the need to sexually assault women.
Bush Obama and Clinton were ‘so cool and masculine because they wore flight jackets!!!
My man Trump, more the man, did not feel the need to fake it. I didn’t like Trump the man either, but he beat out those 3. Can’t picture him in the fake jacket.
I wore one yesterday and not one chick looked my way!,