Word: gentlemanly
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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...
...drunk couple upchucked several liters of bodily fluids between them and then, with their equilibrium partially restored, proceeded to swap much of what remained in an impromptu two hour romp within the potty’s narrow confines. The entire tryst was accompanied by the uproarious cheers of the gentleman in the adjacent potty, who only interrupted his chorus of “booyas” and “fuck-yeahs” for an occasional grunting crap-heave...
...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...