A Hard Sell

I realize the Idea of encouraging men to be gentlemen is a hard sell. Especially when we are already burdened with many "standards" to live by. The Code seems to be yet another impossible list to keep, like the ten commandments, an employer's or profession's code of ethics, or the unwritten and often conflicting expectations culture places on our manhood. Yet I don't see the Code as another list but a clarification of many of those lists we already struggle to keep. What makes us gentlemen may be the fact that we all attempt to live by some set of standards deeper than the immediate appetite that is grumbling to be satisfied. Much of our "Promise Keeping" to borrow a phrase from another men's movement, is done by something in our nature that drives us to live a certain way, act a certain way, and treat others a certain way.
In that, I want to encourage you, the reader, You are not burdened with another standard but instead honored for the standards you already keep, with the title, gentleman.

Be all you resolve to be.
Mark