Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...point, basically, is that everyone should be checking up on each other, because sometimes partners can act selfishly. “[Consent shows] that you’re not just thinking about yourself, but also about your partner,” Johnson maintains. This sounds like something a gentleman like Mansfield would approve...
Dressed up like a Scottish country gentleman with sideburns, tweed hat and walking stick, Barth sat at a table with 10 empty cups of tea and narrated the story of his sister’s life in full Scottish accent...
...women in our enlightened time still need protection from men. Where do they get it? They are not protected by parietal rules, which were abolished in the late ’60s. Nor do women get protection from the idea of “gentleman.” Once upon a time a male student could be punished for “conduct unbecoming a gentleman.” No longer. The double standard in sexual morality is now rejected—which means that women are not expected to be more modest than...
...manliness. There is no standard or guide, nothing one should or should not do because one is a man or a woman. Is this good or bad? Liberals say it is good; conservatives say it is bad. If you see a young man today trying to behave like a gentleman, he seems artificial and self-conscious. He must, pop culture tells us, be either conservative...
...It’s gotta be the traditional Monopoly. I don’t like the fancy stuff. I’m a traditional man, not conservative, but a traditional Southern gentleman. Not all this fancy-schmancy stuff. I love a lot of things: life, lobster, Monopoly, Jeopardy!, football, family...I’m thinking of starting a family. I want to have twelve kids...