In its perennial innocence the Daily Mail illustrates Martin Newland's piece on the rise of manliness - or the "Menaissance sweeping America" - with a massive pic of actor Brandon Routh in his superman kit. On the grounds of taste Mr Routh's reportedly massive lunchbox convexity has been digitally ironed down just in case he looks a little too manly. So much for the novelty of the menaissance.
The Mail seems unaware that Superman is now a pixellated member of American gay iconography: the queens just love a superhero! Just google "gay superman" if you're sceptical. Of course, many a Mary is manly but I doubt that the Mail could bring itself to admit that. Thank God newspapers are edited by drunks and workaholics: they just simply can't think things through.
Incidentally, Mr Newland thinks that manliness is "stoicism, self-respect, decisiveness, assertiveness". These sound like the attributes of my old grandmother, but what do I know?
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