"An automatic and serious consequence of a man's failure to be affirmed in his masculine side is that he will suffer from low self-esteem. He will be unable to accept himself. Men who are unable to fully accept themselves lose to one degree or another the power to act as father, husband, and leader. In short, in an at least some part of their personalities they remain immature and become increasingly passive, and unable to creatively to initiate the changes needed to lift themselves and their families out of the inevitable, quagmires of life, The power is within them to do so. The masculine qualities and gifts are there, but they have not been 'affirmed' into life"

Leanne Payne, Crisis In Masculinity, p. 14.