If masculinity was a trait that was looked as something good

Past is not an unequivocal word.

>>2295349
Their idea of masculinity was different than ours.

Rugged, muscled, violent were poor man's thing.

Cultured, eloquent, smart, patience was the elite's idea of ideal man.

>>2295349
Once you saw what a headful of lice looks like, you too would shave your shit and wear a wig.

>>2295357
This. Buy some more media propaganda OP.

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>>2295349
You realize these guys were armed with swords 24/7 and fought duels to the death over bullshit insults

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>>2295442

>>2295349
>>2295357
masculinity is unironically a social construct

>>2295456
t. numale / tranny

>>2295349
masculinity is a meme and 'our ancestors were more manly' is revionism

>>2295461
In some societies fucking trannies was pretty much the epitome of masculinity wasn't it?

>>2295498
Yeah it was but BEING a tranny is the opposite of masculinity.

—In a slothfull peace both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt.
–Francis Bacon, in Bacon's essays, CUP Archive.

—Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
–Bible, in The New Testament Greek and English, CUP Archive, 1970, p. 712

—Many Scottish writers [however] against the background of the Napoleonic wars, began to disparage this characteristic, and imputed effeminacy to Hinduism, conceptualizing the difference between effeminate Hindus and valiant (and virtuous) Muslims.
–Jeng-Guo S. Chen, in Gendering India: Effeminacy and the Scottish Enlightenment's Debates over Virtue and Luxury, Project Muse,

>>2295530
>when thou hath been born in the wrong generation

>>2295349
Manliness is a peasant thing, much like toiling.

>>2295442
OP also seems to neglect the fact that Aristocrats were a warrior-caste for most of history. Fruity looking men in the 18th century tended toward military careers.