Michael Lockhart of Everett, Washington, writing to Letter to the Editors in the Seattle Times on April 5, responded to a previous letter of April 3 from Fred Hutchins.  

Hutchins had said, "Well, men do wear more jewelry, including many of the `real men' serving in Iraq."

Lockhart's response to this assertion was, "Funny how wars tend to go hand in hand with paranoid fears of `feminization.'  Radical Islamic Jihadists seem to share the same fear, unable to back down from disastrous war strategies because it might look weak."

Specifically Hutchins thought Britain's response to the kidnapping of troops by Iran's government was weak.  Michael Lockhart continued commenting on Fred Hutchins's critique: