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John Nielson's avatar

I agree 100% with your advice on masculinity, but I think it also applies equally to everyone else. Your advice made me think of my grandmothers. One who during the Great Depression escaped an abusive marriage and with her brother’s assistance drove her kids from South Carolina to Idaho in a Model A and a trailer stuffed with her few possessions to start a new life. She became a custodian at a TB hospital, and a few years later she went to nursing school at age 52. She was active in her church and community, and raised most of the meat, poultry, eggs, fruit and vegetables the family consumed. My other grandmother raised a blended family of fifteen ( yours, mine, ours and theirs), grew most of their own food, co-managed the family ranch and sawmill, taught Sunday school, and played piano at church and for square dances. They lived their lives by the same principles you set forth, and also passed them on to their daughters and sons. They were both quite feminine,but also carried the responsibility for their families and communities, very friendly but not to be trifled with.

Thank you for all your great writing, Ted! I came here because of your music writing but continue to return for your commentary on culture at large.

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Anthony Volpe's avatar

Part of the charm is watching Bond, with an almost feline precision, do things most of us can't do including the casual sadism and yes, chasing after beautiful women because that is the world he inhabits (and one that is returning). That was the big problem with No Time to Die. Domesticity doesn't suit Bond. I personally don't need to see him be a good person or "better male" to save the world again

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