The road we built for him

A draft of Chapter 2 of my in-progress book on the death of gentlemen

Part I: Social masculinity
Chapter 2. The road we built for him

The café

The two young Australians at the next table are explaining women to a Vietnamese woman who is not sitting with them. She is at her own table, two across, reading a book in Vietnamese and drinking her own coffee, and the smaller of the two men has just called out to her that she shoul…