Imperial service attracted men unwilling to outgrow boyhood ideals
Evidence
Like Russification, Anglicization naturally also offered rosy opportunities to armies of middle-class metropolitans (not least Scotsmen!) – functionaries, schoolmasters, merchants, and planters – who quickly fanned out over the vast, permanently sunlit realm. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 364 (
#expands, via linked claim)
The social process whereby people born with cocks attain and maintain masculinity takes place in male bonding. Male bonding is institutionalized learned behavior whereby men recognize and reinforce one another’s bona fide membership in the male gender class and whereby men remind one another that they were not born women. Male bonding is political and pervasive. It occurs whenever two males meet. It is not restricted to all-male-groupings. It is the form and content of each and every encounter between two males. Boys learn very early that they had better be able to bond. What they learn in order to bond is an elaborate behavioral code of gestures, speech, habits and attitudes, which effectively exclude women from the society of men. Male bonding is how men learn from each other that they are entitled under patriarchy to power in the culture. Male bonding is how men get that power, and male bonding is how it is kept. Therefore, men enforce a taboo against unbonding—a taboo which is fundamental to patriarchal society. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 282 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Male bonding is how patriarchy confers and preserves male power. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 282; Imperial administration channeled metropolitan middle classes into colonial careers — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 364
Related
- Imperial administration channeled metropolitan middle classes into colonial careers (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Imperial administration channeled metropolitan middle classes into colonial careers
#expands(0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 364 - Male bonding is how patriarchy confers and preserves male power.
#complicates(0.72) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 282