If we follow the recent fashion for thinking of masculinity as being precarious, constantly put to the test (we must prove our manhood), burdened by obligation (we must live up to great expectations), attended by fear (fear of emotion, fear of women, fear of sexual failure) and also by the fear of fear (men do not get frightened), then the man who succeeds in being ‘in fashion’ clearly has, in the course of his anxious, lonely, predatory career-making, a most potent support system.
those who are à la mode know they are not alone and directionless. Fashion shows that one is alert, swerving as the herd swerves, but swerving with the front of the herd.
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