Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
If you shy away from critiquing your male underlings, not only are you preventing them from developing personally and professionally, but you're also giving them ammunition to question your ability as a leader.
I saw the old manservant shared largely in his master's scorn of the child; though he was compelled to retain the sentiment in his heart, because Heathcliff plainly meant his underlings to hold him in honour.