Common Parlance

"The measure of a man is his unflappability"

He's not supposed to blow with the wind, he's supposed to be a source of strength and presence and depth and that's what women tend to count on from men. They want men to hold a space in which they can shine or move or play or radiate and if a man can't handle that then the woman is deeply disappointed because he' going to react and fight and argue.....