Throughout cultures and time honor and manliness have been tied together. Due to honor being a central aspect of a man’s masculinity, men would go great lengths to win their honor. As we look throughout history honor pops up over and over. Such can be found in Homer’s epic poems and Shakespeare’s plays.
However, what exactly is honor? If you ask around you may get that honor is equal to integrity. This, although, doesn’t necessarily capture the concept what numerous duelists died for, what Homer wrote about, and what our own Founding Fathers swore upon. Instead anthropologist Frank Steward says there are two types of honor; those being horizontal and vertical honor.
Horizontal honor is defined as “the right to respect among an exclusive…