Letter: If Trump is the ideal, American manhood in trouble

I read and re-read last week’s Letter Best (Trump answered the call for missing masculinity, Dec. 3) hoping that the writer didn’t truly mean what he was saying, but I found nothing to suggest that he wasn’t serious.

I’ll agree that there’s a crisis of masculinity in this country — as a 67-year-old-man, I’m keenly aware of it — but to suggest that an unprincipled goon like Donald Trump should serve as a model of manliness is an insult to men, and even more of an insult to women.

If the ideal of masculinity is serial adultery, multiple bankruptcies, and complete disregard for the truth, then American manhood is in more trouble than I thought.

This story was originally published December 8, 2017 at 5:10 PM with the headline "Letter: If Trump is the ideal, American manhood in trouble."