I'd start off by stating that anything I say about this concept is my perspective and not absolute. As an ordinary, masculine man myself, I believe I have a "natural warrant" to define what it means to be masculine (or a man) in my perspective view of it; however nothing of this should be taken or accepted as some dogma. I've been thinking and cogitating lately over this, about what makes one masculine or not.

First of all, "masculinity" is a concept—a set of specific traits that perfectly contrasts "femininity". The being that perfectly embodies this concept is what is termed, a "true man/ truly masculine." Which is, masculinity is the "concept" and the physical man is the "embodiment" or the "manifestation/ expression" of it.

I realized there are two major aspects of masculinity:

1. Physical.

2. Mental.

PHYSICAL MASCULINITY

This aspect of masculinity deals with the physical traits of it: possession of a penis, muscular body (not necessarily, but just more pronounced enough to contrast femininity), strength, speed, and every other physical characteristics of a man. This logically means that every man you physically see or meet out there is only "physically a man" including all the simps, cucks, white knights (not White Knight), manginas, and other forms of feminized men, until their manner of thinking and character betrays their masculine weakness. The thing is, these "men" (cucks, manginas, etc.) are fundamentally "flawed"—that is, they are not "fully" men—they only express one "side" of masculinity: the physical. They are not "true men" in the full sense of it. Their character and manner of thinking is reminiscent of mental femininity though they are physically masculine/ men.

MENTAL MASCULINITY

Here, the traits are expressed as behaviour/ character, psychology, reason, talents, abilities, beliefs, ideals, and general manner of approach to everything; which is peculiar to only that which is masculine. In short: anything nonphysical but has to do with the mind entails "mental masculinity". So you could observe rare scenarios whereby a "physically" feminine being exhibits "mental masculinity"; you could also observe "physically" masculine beings expressing "mental femininity". All manginas for instance, are only physically men, and hence, are "incomplete" men (in the strong/ real sense of it) because they are mentally feminine. I won't specify what "characters" are masculine because that would be impossible to list all, and also that all real men already know them because they are obvious. One mental trait of masculinity is the propensity/ disposition to be dominated by reason in general approach to matters/ anything.

The MAIN reason man has always "ruled" over woman is because of his reason complemented by his strength. Order (think of reason) rules over chaos (think of feelings, emotions, etc.), the reverse (that is, chaos overpowering order) is absolute disaster and destruction. Reason operates with logic, morals, laws and rules, and fine judgements; feelings and emotions (which could operate morally but lack any order and consistency) have no guide and have to submit to reason so to not even be its own destruction. You think it's only strength that allowed the masculine to dominate the feminine, then lions, tigers, bears, and other more ferocious and stronger creatures would be ruling over the entire humanity. Reason is supreme; however, the case of abuse of masculinity is no work of reason because pure reason makes no mistakes—it's only a flaw in reasoning.