Date: Feb. 1st, 2022 09:45 am (UTC)
oursin: Picture of Fotherington-Tomas skipping, with words subversive male added (Subversive male)
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Doesn't that tenderness between men also go with a different model of acceptable male emotionality? 'He shed manly tears' - and no-one thinks the worse of him for it - Crimean veterans soaking their whiskers as they sobbed over The Heir of Redclyffe.

(I think John Tosh in A Man's Place talks about a shift quite late in the C19th to a more stiff-upper-lip mode)
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