I finally got back to the book "Manliness" after setting it down for a few weeks and am starting to understand what the author is getting at. He's gone back and is reviewing the history of Western political thought in order to analyze feminism in order to give context, historical and contemporary, to manliness, and its apparent conflict with current feminist movements. Maybe surprisingly, manliness, the best characteristics of traditional men, conflicts very little, except in dogmas that deny gender differences even exist.

Still, the book hasn't wrapped everything up into a nice summary, so I will continue to reserve judgement until I've finished it. It is a slog, jumping from Hobbes to Plato to Nietzsche to Spinoza, creating cultural models of gender when women were ignored by each. Some of it feels like a stretch...

And once again we have Cynnamon and Angela doing their respective things in my hotel room in Newfoundland. Angela accuses me of showing these pictures too often, but they are the most current work and I'm still developing film, so it seems reasonable to me to show them. But I'll drop them for a bit in the next few posts, OK?