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...multimillionaire, Robert F. Kennedy grew up to know the lush green lawns of Palm Beach, the snowy slopes of Vermont, the blue skies and waters of Hyannisport. He reached manhood with the barest notion of what life is like in the slums, and with scant concern for the hollow-eyed and hungry who people them...
...life and most of society were designed precisely to drive men deep into onanism and homosexuality; one defied such a fate by sweeping up the psychic profit which derived from the existential assertion of yourself--which was a way of saying that nobody was born a man; you earned manhood provided you were good enough; bold enough...
HERE ALSO is a key notion put forward by Mrs. Ellmann when she turns from Their analogies to Their view of women themselves. This is the idea that men must struggle to achieve manhood, they must prove themselves in all sorts of tests, while women are women and must transcend the failings of their sex to attain their ideal condition. Manhood is a title conferred; womanhood is a judgment to be escaped. They say "he's a man" in praise of any manifestation of worth; the equivalent for women is "she's a real person." "She's a woman...
...Misspent Manhood. Alas, when the real Freddy Exley stands up, he proves to be singularly inept. Drunkenly, he stumbles from one football weekend to the next. The games with their supermen provide the pitiful framework for his misspent manhood. He destroys his fledgling career in publicity. He finds that his dream girl personified the materialistic, castrating American woman. His weaknesses lead him to three stays in sanatoriums. Finally, he becomes a contemporary Oblomov, spending his nights and days on couches and beds, living in the marathon shadow world of television's cultural prefabrication, and talking...
...city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped by gangs of tougher convicts within a day or two of their arrival. Their bodies defiled, their manhood degraded and their will broken, the victims are sent back to society "ashamed, confused and filled with hatred." The system "imposes a cruel, gruesome punishment, which is not and could not be included in the sentence of the court...