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Tolkien and Masculinity

"Toxic," effeminate or chivalrous?

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Kaleb Hammond
Jan 17, 2025
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What is a man? People today find it difficult to answer the question, What is a woman? But how many could even answer the related question, What is a man? For modern psychologists and those influenced by them (which is practically everyone), “masculinity” and “femininity” are not directly equivalent or applicable to “man” and “woman.” One can just as we…

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