
Episode #41: The Gentlemen and the Roughs with Dr. Lorien Foote
The Art of Manliness
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The Conflicting Views of Manhood and Honor Butting Heads
Genteel officers, some of them want to clean up these men. They want to force them to take a bath two or three times a week and there was a lot of conflict over that issue. So did I know one aspect of the honor of the gentleman was you weren't supposed to ever duel or fight someone that was beneath you? Yeah. But were there instances where that was ignored and they actually duked it out with someone from the rough class? Well duke it out, yes, but not in a sense that they would call it a duel.
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