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The seemingly objective discourses of science and history are bound up with masculinity because it is masculine entities that dominate the discourse. The manias of those characterized as masculine become science because it is generally the masculine who are scientists and therefore what they are personally interested in is what gets looked into. Military strategy is usually guided by masculine figures, and the first image assumes that precision is a masculine trait and that everything from joy to military strategy is carefully calculated, and in the case of joy, the calculations may exist to avoid showing emotion, because emotions are associated with the feminine.