“Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues.”

—  Ellen Willis

"How Now, Iron Johns?", The Nation (13 December 1999)
Context: Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

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writer, activist 1941–2006

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