Further, while competition and betrayal are the main thorns to female friendship; men are plagued in almost equal amounts by two additional issues, lack of frankness and a fear of appearing unmanly.
Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weakness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn't quite forgive yet.
The very excess of his former eagerness to possess Antonia now contributed to inspire him with disgust; and a secret impulse made him feel how base and unmanly was the crime which He had just committed.