• • The Jane Austen Guide to Manliness 
Shannon Rupp, The Tyee (BC) A couple of decades ago, I thought it was just the New Age Wingnuts who claimed masculinity was in decline and sent men to bang a drum in the woods. As too many New Agers tend to be Ayn Randian style right-wingers who preach individual power -- which they will happily sell you -- I paid little attention. But by the time the noughties arrived, the internet-enabled Culture of Narcissism led to all sorts of oversharing by both sexes, and men began stewing over their inadequacies publicly as if they were characters in a Nick Hornby novel.   Published: 2013-02-23