The Pat Tillman Experience

Twenty Years Later

The word manly wasn’t spoken much during my formative years. The “manosphere” was not yet a thing, and American monoculture seemed terribly uninterested in examining what men were for. When people said “manly,” they seemed to mean “cave-manly”: boorishly horny and/or stupidly macho. At the same time, facile feminist rhetoric proclaimed, “A woman needs a…