Back to AtD "nothin like that"...Or basic masculine stuff, eh Alice?

[Mark Kohut]

p.884 Reef ain't gay because he is the male 'aggressor" but 

"You're not talking about---he made circling gestures with 
his fingers---"you doing me, nothing like that."  

No taking it in the ass for Reef, cowboy... 

then our author segues to male honor, p.885.... 
"when it's your honor. it's life and death." ---says Ole Reef 

Old-fashioned Gender Masculinity linked to  
honor as Shakespeare does in the Henry plays (among others)--- 
male aggression ......is honorable........ 

Although Shakespeare has Henry and soldiers make the link 
but he has Falstaff question it even before..... 

(with great words on Honor)... 

p. 885 l.3-4 "You don't have that, where you're from? England?.
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