I find this quite pertinent in light of recent events.
“Segurem suas cabras que meu bode está solto“
That’s a traditional Lusophone saying that means tie up your does because my buck is free. Get it? Keep your females locked up because my male is roaming free. This is usually said about a son, with a laugh, sometimes a pat on the back. Certainly always with pride.
It’s part of a construct. A standard of masculinity men in many parts of the world have been expected to live up to for much of history. Men of my generation (or older), or born in a Latin country, or in a conservative religious environment, or to the working classes, or to any variety of authoritarian political regime – most probably know what I’m referring to.
At a certain point in my youth some of these regulations were made clear to me (as apparently they didn’t sink in naturally). Men keep…
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