A man's man.

Why are we so mawkish about certain events portrayed by the media who control the way we think these days.
Australia is playing a Cricket Test Match in Sydney today and so when the news bulletin switched to reading some of the sports results they immediately reminded us about the death of the young Australian cricketer who was hit on the head by the ball. The report concentrated on the fact that this was the first time since the sad event that the national team were returning to play at the ground. This need to remind us and focus our attention on something which had been reported over and over was now brought back once again with no doubt calls for a minute or more of silence before the match starts plus the eulogies about the player.
The call for remembrance has become sort of statutory, as if we need to display our emotions and, if we don't, we are not 'carey', 'touchy', or 'feely' in this age of femininity, we are admonished for not  absorbing the female input into our psyche which is seen to represent the modern man.
When one thinks of the death and destruction in both World Wars or the ongoing horror of living in one of those parts of the world where death is common through lack of nourishment or the conflict of religious or political ideology one wonders how this 'feline dandy' with his bath oils and hair gels, ever the eye on fashion, always preened much the same as his female counterpart would survive a stint in the trenches.
Perhaps the uni-sexing project has succeeded with men claiming their right to maternity leave and queuing up to take on more and more of the household chores.
If the generation after this attains full full blown interchangeability in all but carrying the baby until birth, and if the growth in gay people, confused with their sexuality, continues to expand then the sight of what used to be called "a man's man" will be rare.