Rated "M" for Manly: Difference between revisions

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* [[Poul Anderson]]: Wrote about vikings, Roman soldiers,[[Technic History|space merchants, space spies]], space warriors, babynapping [[The Fair Folk|elf kings]], [[Inn Between the Worlds| historical badasses]] in a cross-dimensional tavern, dark age warlords, [[The High Crusade| a medieval baron]] who conquers a space empire with longbows and on and on. He also helped found the Society for Creative Anachronism.
* Longfellow's Village Blacksmith is a gentle peaceful soul. But he is a "mighty man with strong and sinewy hands" and his arms are "as strong as iron bands."
* [[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance]] features a whole [[Badass Family]] going round the world fighting evil empires. And oh yes the author considers the US Navy [[Author Appeal|really manly.]] Guess [[Write What You Know|what he was doing]] at the [[World War Two|time?]]
 
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* How has [[Bruce Campbell]] not been mentioned yet?
* Or [[Theodore Roosevelt]]? He was seen by many in his own time as a god among men!
* A dark version of this was [[Those Wacky Nazis]] who tried to make a [[Region of Evil|religion]] of German manliness. [[Captain Obvious|Some would say]] they took it [[Understatement|a little to far.]]