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When speaking of "modern masculinity", there seems to be two definitions depending on which political discourse you belong to. One of judeo Christian tradition, and the other arising from liberal individualism.

My observations will however be limited to war like masculinity of the 50s, since this kind of masculinity is more intertwined with judeo Christian slave morality.

The topics I will cover are the control of female sexuality, homosexuality and effeminacy, and war loving.

As Foucault put it, woman is considered simultaneously inferior to man yet threatening. From that arose various forms of discipline arising from Christianity.
The anxiety of female sexuality plagues that of lower men, while it is of little concern to higher men. Contrapoints covered this topic in "envy", where just like how religious slave morality paints the higher men as evil, incels and those with little luck with females paint men with sexual success as evil. "I am the nice guy, she only chases bad boys" is no different than the cry of the slave who thinks himself as good because he has no claws.
Women also gain power by flaunting their sexuality, hence Christianity promotes modesty which mostly benefits the weak man.

On effeminacy, Aristocratic men, and men of higher class across cultures beautified themselves since it symbolized leisure time.

The oldest record for men wearing makeup came from China & Japan. It could be the reason why Asian culture still considers beautiful, feminine looking men more desirable than masculine men, because Asians had realized early on that no amount of physical strength and aggression can compensate for the lack of masculine intelligence. This is so ingrained in Eastern cultures that the women in Malaysia and Indonesia prefer kpop idols over bearded musalman for decades despite the protests of imams.

Men would powder themselves since dark skin and blemishes was a sign of the lower classes. In the age of western Hollywood masculinity, its the opposite. The farm worker and the man *forced* to embrace war is seen as superior to the higher men who are free from such duties.

A more shocking aspect of the Triumph of slave morality in masculinity is how the suit and tie came to denote class. It is no different from the uniform of a waiter in a 5 star hotel. If a man decides to flaunt his wealth through clothing and body art like the upper class ancient Egyptians, he is denounced as a homosexual and pressured to conform to mediocre herd values.

My solution would be to identify femboys as the true harbingers of master morality. It's not about the femboys who are weak, pathetic, & rely on slave morality; but feminine men like David Bowie and Prince who do not require judeo Christian masculinity to display power.

is it just me or is this autistic as hell

I firmly believe that all the answers to current day social issues are solved in this book. Someone just needs to write a follow-up to this book analyzing how dominant Progressive ideology has become and connect it with Francis Fukuyama’s concerns that Liberalism would lead to the Last Men of History. We are indeed at the end of history, but Nietzsche’s slavish last men had the last laugh.

Ok, so I got that secularism and most of modern thought just developed out of Christian ethics. But if Christianity is the origin of all our current morals that uphold weakness and equality, why didn’t Islam develop into secular thought when it shares so many ethics?