Manliness

More Hank Stuever: For woe unto the manly. So scorned, so sublimated. When was the last time you could throw a punch? Not in the professional world, with its PowerPoint, no-I-in-team manners. We've reduced ideas of manliness to a blue-collar art form — the lifeguards, the bodyguards, the guys you pay to come over and repair appliances. Congress — so unmanly, only aiming to please. Lawyers, actors, agents — nary a manly man among them, settling as they do for a percentage of the action. The only manliness left, Mansfield supposes, is the bad kind, excessive manliness. (Example: Taliban.)