The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.
Rosalind Coward, Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant To The New Millennium?
endurance, incompetence, masculinity, self-restraint, strength