What would you say makes a man a “man”?

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1. His genes

2. Two ways. Internally, perform any action while identifying your actions as coming from a masculine place. This is recognising yourself as a man.

   Externally, people will refer to you as a boy or whatever and then one day they’ll switch to man and then you’re being a man in the social sense.

3. Accept his shortcommings, and do something about them instead of blaming external factors. Acknowledge, accept and own your fears/weaknesses.

4. External genitalia vaguely resembling a penis and scrotum.

5. Not all the toxic masculine bullshit that most people think “makes a man.”

6. XY chromosomes

7. …That and a pair of testicles
   -J.Lebowski

8. Call me old fashioned but; a penis.

9. Only woman ask this question.
   It’s usually an insult caused by the feelings of a girl that got hurt because a guy wouldn’t waist his money, time or give her the attention she felt she deserved. Usually followed with public insults towards or about the guy so she feels she got him back. Because that’s how women abuse guys by publicly belittling them.

10. he must be an AlPhA, muscles and not crying. 🥴

11. When he stops asking for validation

12. Depends on the context. Biologically it’s the chromosomes difference and reproductive systems etc. But if it’s the standard context we always hear, then being a man is about strength, chivalry, courage, assertiveness, confidence.

13. I don’t understand why this question is asked so much

14. Honor over the law.

15. If he treats others especially women with honor and respect.

16. Responsible and reliable

17. Y

18. Manners

19. Reproduction strategy, nature didn’t spend resources into men, so we are cheaper and more diverse. And thus men either build something to have value or they die alone, forgotten.

    *Men don’t have inherent value, that makes a man.*

20. What makes a man, is it the power in his hands?
    Is it his quest for glory?

21. owning up to their responsibilities and not shying away from difficult decisions

22. Being a provider and a protector. IMO everything else is kinda dependent on where you live and what beliefs you subscribe to, but these two things are universal in most every culture.

23. Being as swift as a coursing river

24. Penis and balls

25. “You ain’t a man ‘til you’ve had a man.”

    -Will Powerfish-

26. His response to adversity.

27. Having a dick

28. You must swift as a coursing river, with all the force of great typhoon, with all the strength of raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon.

29. Inhaling cigars.

30. Not giving a fuck about what other people think being a man looks like or entails.

31. Being a miserable pile of secrets

32. Reason and accountability

33. 1. A penis (real one)
    2. Having a sense of work ethic that has been time tested

34. To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

35. It’s the balance of being able to take counsel and having a firm understanding of who you are and what you want from life.

    . . . and not giving s fuck what other people think.

36. Being a man makes a man. Each person defines their own existence.

37. A penis and nads

38. Y chromosome