Or are the common characteristics of traditional "manliness" now considered toxic? Has the definition of "a real man" changed? I'm a 43-yo he/him libtard. I'm white and cis-gendered and have a traditional marriage and a kid. I did sports in school, but liked choir and theatre more. I have been known to write poems. I love watching football and duding out with dudes and making boner- and poop-related jokes. I'm not a weaksman but I'm not a muscle boi either. I exercise quite a bit but also eat pizza and Taco Bell an awful lot. I like playing with my daughter, basically whatever she wants to do. I see this Andrew Tate asshole and how he's influencing teenagers and I rage. Does a 'real man' exist anymore? Or is the goal just to be a 'good person'?
Playing rugby is the number one sign of manliness according to studies. Research shows that the studies are correct.
He's some influencer. I don't give a crud about his opinion. I just learned about him when he got arrested. But I've since learned he holds loads of influence over young people and it's a bad deal
This sounds like an admirable quality, but why is that a “manly” one? Wouldn’t feminine people be able to display this trait as well? Anyway, to the question, I don’t really care. This question is of little interest to me.
While I respect that you’re securing enough to have your facial hair permanently laser-removed, I’m also very much looking forward to your midlife crisis when you get beard hair plugs like Michael Jackson.
Andrew Tate branded himself as a pick-up artist turned influencer (read: try-hard turned rapist). His influence on teenage and twenty-something males can't be denied though. He's a terrible person whose message resonates with a lot of immature males that don't want to make the effort to work on themselves and instead blame society for their lack of success with women. I don't think the OP "cares" about his opinion as much as the fact that he has undeniably had an effect on younger people by re-introducing the unhealthy, aggressive version of masculinity back into the conversation. Hopefully, this is just a cringy fad of some edgelord, too-online teenagers that will grow out of it. But it's disheartening to see when progress towards a healthier, caring version of men has become accepted/the norm.
Also I think wanting to define these hard black-and-white boundaries between masculinity and femininity contributes to the problem. Just take the Ron Swanson attitude when questioned: everything I do is masculine because I identify as a male. Spoiler :50
True manliness is Jesus toting an AR15 as he drives his Jeep over the corpses of gunned down school children to cast his ballot for Trump
Where are the buttons for: - "Will help you move and only slightly bitch about it" - "Can change a tire"
I think they mainly developed as by-products of the sexual division of labor that exploded in the prehistorical-early Neolithic revolution era of mankind. I think it’s a fair question at this point if technological advancements have rendered much of their utility moot, but it’s going to be a tough transition to overcome thousands of years of hard-baked social (and at this point probably genetic) coding in just a generation or two. These things take time.
Yeah it always seemed like it had no real definition and people defined it however they wanted to, which makes it seem like it has no meaning at all
It’s not rly a question I’ve ever thought about. I feel like the concept of manliness is one of those things that people that don’t have great hair, bone structure, or natural physique worry about as a way to feel better about themselves
Masculinity and femininity as concepts just seem like ways to exclude people with zero corresponding benefit. Like, what’s even the point of defining it?
I have a very hairy chest and always say “no homo” after blowing my friends. I’m as manly as it gets.