Things Fall Apart Okonkwo "Mother is Supreme"

Okonkwo ignores or refuses to acknowledge the "female" virtues in himself and others in many ways.  The reason why is because he thinks that female virtues are signs of weakness.  He doesn't believe that one can have female virtues while being "manly."  He never shows his true feelings if those feelings are female feelings.  He hides them because in his mind when you are being loving, sympathetic, or compassionate, you are very vulnerable to whatever.  He never acts like he loves his son.  He beats him if he shows any sign of a female virtue.  This one-sidedness creates a lot of problems in his life.  I think that it must be really hard for him to survive because he finds it difficult to show the female virtues in his everyday life.  He killed his own "son" because he didn't want to be looked at as weak.  He is very narrow-minded.  He can't see that if he does show the feminine qualities, he can also be manly.