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| 2 | 313 | Now he View more quotes about spoke">spoke of me as though I had not even, as yet, begun to glimpse the meaning of true manhood. |
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| 2 | 310 | "How I despise your sort," he said, "fools, cowards, and weaklings, guilt-ridden, confused, smug, meaningless, pretentious, soft males who have permitted themselves to be tricked out of the prerogatives of their sex, robbed of the birthright of their own manhood, who dare not be true to the needs of their own blood, males too weak, too frightened and ashamed, to be men". |
| 2 | 311 | It startled me that he had said these things, for I had thought myself unusual among the men of Earth in my manhood. |
| 2 | 312 | Indeed, I had often been castigated and belittled for having been too masculine. |
| 2 | 313 | Now he spoke of me as though I had not even, as yet, begun to glimpse the meaning of true manhood. |
| 2 | 314 | I was shaken. |
| 2 | 315 | I began to tremble. |
| 2 | 316 | What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realities of a brutal evolution, but now, for the first time, I had begun to suspect that my conception of manhood, so advanced I had thought, did little more than begin to hint at the possible glories of a suppressed, thwarted, tortured reality, a reality genetically dispositional in every cell in a man's body, a reality feared and castigated by a counterbiological culture. |