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“It’s okay to be a man.” â€" Kurt Cobain, Journals

Decades back, as I recall, Pete Hamill, New York’s great journalist, wrote a piece titled “The End of Machismo.” Machismo was a word that had come into fashion meaning exaggerated masculinity, but it came to be used to refer to any man who was just a man.

The thing is it didn’t end, because it can’t. Machismo/manhood went into exile in Tony Soprano’s New Jersey. And what masterful troupe acting came from that. But the only ones allowed then the free and noble play of honor, love, family, sin, commitment and responsibility were fictitious New Jersey gangsters.

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