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>Samwise is a good man in fiction because he never does anything to announce his masculinity— it comes out through his values. He defends Frodo not because that’s what a man would do, but because he has a deep personal connection to his friend and to the values they share. It comes off as an example of positive masculinity simply because he happens to be a man. If Samwise were a woman, those actions would come off as positive femininity. What I’m saying here is that the gender is not actually of any consequence whatsoever, it is simply the result of our natural imperative as humans to assign category wherever possible and thus create a more navigable mental map of our living experience.

JFC. The thesis of that whole post is that *masculinity means believing there is no such thing as manhood.*