![]() ![]() Toby's straight out of an eighties romcom and bending over backwards to be a sweetheart. There was even a book called The Man of Feeling, written by Henry Mackenzie in 1771, about a guy who has all these qualities and then some. ![]() These new men were classic Sensitive Guy, although the word for it then was "sentiment" or "sensibility." They were gentle, kind, respectful, and they sure weren't trying to get into your pants (or up your skirts)-or so they said. ![]() Toward the middle of the eighteenth century, though, a new model of masculinity started to catch on. They drank, they hunted, they screwed around, they told dirty jokes, they laughed at women, and they basically carried on like a bunch of bros. In the early eighteenth century, and for quite a while before that, men-especially the rich ones-were men. Toby is Tristram's uncle, Walter Shandy's brother, and a loveable doofus who loves his war toys. ![]()
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