Whatever happend to manliness?

[Asmodean]

Cause your avatar is so manly? Just a dissatisfied lump, I'd say.

[Jolly Sapper]

Manliness and womanliness are pretty much social constructs.

Take the picture of Roosevelt. A badass right?  

A few hundred years earlier, the badasses wore brightly colored tights and fought with over sized knives.

A few thousand years earlier and the badasses wore long shirts, fought with shorter over sized knives and had sex with their fellow badasses.

Whatever criteria determine "manliness" and "womanliness" change over time.  Sometimes its due to pressures withing a society and I'd be that at other times the change is do to a group within a society wanting to ostracize another group (soldiers = manly; hippies >= manly).

[fester30]

I blame it on the downfall of the Marlboro man.  If only smoking was good for us.