Save Your Manhood Tip #54: Watch David Mamet's The Unit

Dear Mr. Man Points, 

What television shows do you recommend that won’t compromise my masculinity? 

There is only one show worth watching and that is David Mamet’s The Unit. On the surface it is about a special forces organization based on Eric L. Haney’s Inside Delta Force.  But underlying the show’s well-crafted, ever-twisting plots is the theme of the Male Code, which can be broken down as thus: 

1. Loyalty to your unit, your family, yourself, and your principles.
2. Know  why you believe what you believe or you will be weak under pressure.
3. Keep your wits about yourself in a crisis. Your manhood is defined by your ability to say cool when the circumstances compel you to do otherwise.
4. Know what makes you tick. Knowing your inner psychology helps you, among other things, know how the potential enemy might try to manipulate you.
5. Learn to distinguish moral courage from stupid or reckless courage.
6. Know when to obey rules but at the same time know when to break the rules.
7. Don’t be committed to one plan but be able to improvise and have contingency plans.
8. Understand that cunning and trickery is far more powerful than brute force.