![]() ![]() The arguments always come back to making money, getting laid, and being in shape. “Real men make 6-figures and have a big family”.“An alpha male lifts weights and is good with women”.“A real man takes martial arts or does MMA”.People give lists that include things like I’ve thought about all the different arguments that people make about what a “real man” does. They do not inherently make you masculine. ![]() ![]() Men who aren’t willing to do what it takes to become masculine will bend the definition to include things that are antithetical to becoming a man but because they do it AND they still want to be considered masculine, they argue for it.įor example, a lot of guys like to argue that because men play video games, that video games (especially sports games or first-person shooters) are examples of manliness.Įven men in today’s world think that being able to hold your liquor, smoke cigars, and get laid off from dating apps makes you man. That makes it easy for anyone to change the definition to suit their narrative or message. It’s easy to say that masculinity is one of those things that you know when you see it, but that leaves us with a big problem: This means we have to define “masculinity”. Before we try to become something, we have to know what we’re trying to become. ![]()
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