manly

Captain Babushkinov blinked and wiped a manly tear from his eye.

Especially now, she might have added, after surviving his manly shipboard adventure: He was suntanned and lean muscled, and hummed sea chanteys under his breath in the moonlight....

During the meal, Lady Constance made bright, careless remarks about shopping and the weather, and the admiral told manly tales of exploration and danger in distant lands.

Not because she loved her mother, but because she left Gibby with all the chores that her father and brother thought they were too manly to complete.

“It was all based on stereotypes,” he said, and anathema to gay kids like himself who were teased for not being “manly” enough.