How to be a man?

Newsuperstevebros · 2012-11-22T21:23:43+00:00

Well, the first thing you need is the strength of a raging fire. Then you need the force of a great typhoon. Then you need to be as swift as a coursing river. After that, all you need to be is mysterious as the dark side of the moon. Congratulations! You are now qualified to be a man.

EvilPundit · 2012-11-22T21:13:40+00:00

I'm not sure there is any such definitive list. "How to be a man" would be a little different for every man.

My main criterion for being a man includes not letting anyone else dictate to me "how to be a man". A man makes his own decisions about self-nature.

That said, there are lots of good and useful suggestions around.

ThePigman · 2012-11-23T04:36:02+00:00

"I'm interested in this subreddit's "Guide on How to be a Man"

We have one of those? Doesn't seem a very MRA thing to have...

OThomson · 2012-11-23T01:44:17+00:00

Be who you are, not who others tell you to be, and you are a man.

MechPlasma · 2012-11-22T21:58:32+00:00

I like to think of it that... if you think of ways to be the best man you could be, and ways to be the best woman you could be, and they're not near-exactly the same, then your lists are wrong.

Because being the best person you can be is a definitive thing, there's no "branches" of it depending on who you were born as.

After that though, it's completely subjective. There's some general tips, like "Don't get angry" or "Don't use insults in a debate" and stuff like that, but really... a lot of the fun in life comes from the way different people have huge different notions of who they want to be! It'd be no fun at all if everyone was just the same way.

onetenth · 2012-11-23T22:17:12+00:00

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scientist_salarian1 · 2012-11-23T05:25:31+00:00

Step 1.) Be born with a Y chromosome. Step 2.) Survive to adulthood.

Congratulations. You are now a man. One should always follow his own will and desires, not someone else's preconceived ideas of what he should be.

DerickBurton · 2012-11-22T22:50:26+00:00

Cock and balls?

Check.

I am a man!

sp8der · 2012-11-23T07:17:38+00:00

Step 1. Have a Y chromosome.

There is no step 2.

rightsbot · 2012-11-22T21:10:19+00:00

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AliasRooster · 2012-11-23T00:56:05+00:00

f you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same:. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

~Kipling

themountaingoat · 2012-11-23T03:42:37+00:00

I think any project defining how to be a man in this day and age is misguided and wrong. All of these ideas to be a man are all trying to get men do serve society and women in order to earn respect. Right now, when men get little respect no matter what they do, I think to do anything than whatever they want to do is a mistake, and they will only be taken advantage of if they do so.

What men need to do now is whatever the fuck they want.

philosoraptor1000 · 2012-11-23T00:34:03+00:00

I like the definition I was raised with. A good Man takes care of his responsibilities. This includes taking care of you and your family, if applicable, and keeping your word.

ullere · 2012-11-23T15:29:20+00:00

Y-chromosome... check. Man.

Title	How to be a man?
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	3
Comments	24
Date	November 22, 2012 9:10 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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