What does it mean to be a man?

What does it mean to be a man?

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dangly parts in the downstairs area

to suffer

Sure as hell feels like it fren

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To admit to being able to break down and being hurt, admit that life is suffering and chaos, to go through the fire and the flames, and still be willing to keep walking.

to look masculine

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homesick for a place that never existed : (

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Damn you Ireland fren :(

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Masculinity is a failed artificial construct that only leads to war, crime, and virulent peoples.

you wouldn't know because you're an ayylmao

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to be a cute trap

checked imptrash get

XY chromosomes

That and a pair of testicles

Agression

Bipedal , dew clawed and featherless

Or homosapiens

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something something pile of secrets

Based

Correct

be a miserable pile of secrets

stole my joke :(

sorry :(

shows you a kangaroo
BEHOLD
A MAN

What does it mean to be a man?
It's all subjective
Perhaps you mean what does the masculinity of man entail?
Good question that you didn't ask
Shall we start from the hunter gatherers?

Naturally, men tend to be physically stronger than women, and hence they went hunting whereas women took care of the society as a whole.This might lead you to think that men would play the dominant role, but new research has suggested otherwise- that there were intrinsic benefits to equality during early human societies.Now, the end of hunter-gatherers into agricultural society is where most of recorded history is, so let's move on
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Manis an upright, featherless biped with broad, flat nails."

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In the Neolithic period, men were much more domineering and had more of a say over women- perhaps due to the fact that women were no longer that essential for a society to survive?(Agriculture guaranteed a safe and predictable harvest...mostly)
This is best exemplified and elaborated upon in the source below
studymoose.com/gender-inequality-in-the-neolithic-era-and-gender-equality-in-the-paleolithic-era-essay

>Ywn jack off in public
>Ywn tell the king to stop blocking your sun
>Ywn piss on people who you dislike
Why live

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Ahem
Now on to the classical period
Women in ancient Greece were known to have played quite a big role, in part thanks to religion.They still did not have equality in non-religious areas, and men were the philosophers, the artisans, the sculptors, the carpenters in these early ages.What did it mean to be a man then?Not that different from the early modern age- to raise a family, inherit your father's business, so on and so forth. Of course, much like the early modern age, there were many exceptions, I think quite a few philosophers could be classified as "unusual" and "non-conforming", just off the top of my head, Socrates and Diogenes
quatr.us/greeks/family-ancient-greece.htm

In the interest of time, I will jump from the classical period to the early modern period, since it mostly meant the same thing, just to varying degrees on the supposed values that makes a man.

The industrial revolution is too big and complex a topic that I can summarize in a single paragraph.Nevertheless, the effects it had on society and societal values were pretty profound, to say the least.Women had actual jobs for once, and Men no longer viewed the military or taking over the family's business as the only career path.This, combined with the aftermath of WW1( another topic entirely ), lead to the suffragist movement gaining traction and as history dictates, the nineteenth amendment was passed.
For men, on the other hand, in the early days of the industrial revolution, wages were low, the hours long, the jobs hazardous.That and the fact that more and more people were getting literate, caused a major rise in labour union memberships.Labour unions had existed since 1794, but education of republican ideals that kickstarted the American revolution and easy access to labour theories meant a huge surge in labour unions.
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WW2.What does it mean to you personally?
What do you think it meant to your ancestors?
How about the soldiers?
How about the factory workers?
How about the fact that the capitalists and trade unions agreed for once to freeze wages to support the war effort?

But enough on that, let's focus on the aftermath of the war.Millions of men dead, mass de-colonisation, awakening of the masses to the dangers of extreme political theory, and of course the baby boom that indirectly led to 2nd wave feminism.

2nd wave feminism...I think the best exemplifications of it are roe vs wade and the equal wages act of 1963.This meant that men had more competition in the work force then there previously was, and combined with a baby boom, wages were sure to stagnate sooner or later.Nobody cared though, equality is a moral thing after all, and baby boomers were too busy enjoying their secure jobs with high wages to care about future generations, but instead reaped all the benefits of the previous and current generation- social security, as an example.It is definitely not viable today, but why would baby boomers care?They just tossed the problem onto the next generation nytimes.com/2018/11/29/business/retirement/retirement-spending-calculators.html

That leaves us with today-third wave feminism, stagnating wages, overcrowded job market, the refugee crisis, the bipartisian political divide...But let's not forget that we are in an information age, an innovation age, truly, the sky is the limit.I'll let you decide for yourself now that you know about the history of what it meant to be a man, because really, while it might have had a concrete definition in the past, right now, in my own opinion, you can do, and be anything, so there's no set path for being a man.

Hope you read this OP!