Bill Kristol’s column in The Weekly Standard discusses the recent “On Language” column on “man up.”
What prompted Angle to this exhortation? Maybe she’s a fan of Ben Zimmer’s “On Language” column in the New York Times magazine, and remembered that, a few weeks ago, Zimmer considered the meaning of “man up.” He pointed out that “the exhortation is taking on many guises in American popular culture right now. . . . Its spectrum of meanings runs from ‘Don’t be a sissy; toughen up’ all the way to ‘Do the right thing; be a mensch,’ to use the Yiddishism for an honorable or upright person.”
Read the rest here.