Harvard professor writes book about me.

WHO IS NOT JUST a man, but a manly man? And who today can even say the words ''manly man" without smirking?

You rang?

For better and worse, men are more willing than women to stick out their necks for causes, ideas, and people. They possess a greater taste for the physical and intellectual combat that has led to mankind's (yes, mankind's) greatest achievements. ''I don't think we need to preserve manliness," he said in an interview. ''I think there is plenty of evidence that manliness is around us. But women need to come to terms with it-society as a whole does." The gender-neutral society is by definition a mediocre one, with male greatness viewed as threatening to the social order and men and women crammed into boxes they don't fit in.

Yeah quit cramming me in a box! Oh, I just thought of a really dirty pun for this.

Mansfield's definition of manliness is maddeningly imprecise: Basically, he says, you know it when you see it.

Go ahead, take a look.

It is like the guy has been watching me! It is sort of scary really. I mean it would be scary if I were not such a man.