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[Honeycombe8]

95. It's an expression. An idiom. A common one. You've never heard it? Are you maybe young?

It's been around for ages. It means, "take it stoically" "suck it up" "don't whine and cry." Coming from the societal expectation of men that they not cry or carry on, no matter what may happen to them, which has historically not been an expectation of the female sex. Hence the expression, "take it like a man." Which may be said to a person of either sex.

I guess you change the radio station when the Four Seasons' song, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" comes on.

I guess you can't read books by Mark Twain, Confucius, Oscar Wilde, or every other famous writer and philosopher, since they all use expressions with the word "man" in them.

Political correctness is great, up to a point. But to whine about an old, common expression, to get away from the point of a post, is well....not sucking it up.