What is a man?

death_by_1000_cats · 2021-01-11T03:09:27+00:00

A man is an adult male human, like a bull is an adult male cow. That's it.

spacechicken1990 · 2021-01-11T05:09:57+00:00

This again.

A man is a male human who has gone through puberty, before that he is a boy.

Kaisha001 · 2021-01-11T03:42:23+00:00

According to women, a 'man' will be whatever is beneficial to them at that moment at time. Anything else, like independent thinking, self actualization, etc... is 'toxic'.

jdobrila · 2021-01-11T10:16:04+00:00

Masculinity makes a man. Masculinity is a collection of traits and behaviours inherent to male homo sapiens sapiens.

Sid_Insidious · 2021-01-12T01:49:03+00:00

A man is a human who laughs at those who tell him what it means to be a man.

Zonkey_Zeedonk · 2021-01-13T03:05:38+00:00

Things that make a “man:”

-accountability is number one. Boys blame other people/get over sensitive and angry at the world for things that don’t work out for them, men look inward and reflect.

-self-sufficiency. Don’t have to be rich, but you do have to be able to support yourself and live like an adult. I think the boundaries of this are different depending on your age too, so “self-sufficient” for a 21 year old looks different than for a 31 year old.

-Respectful to women. Men listen when women talk, and don’t speak to them differently than they do to other men. They also know how to take “no” for an answer.

-Don’t take things personally/take yourself too seriously. Men understand when things are and aren’t about them, and can laugh at themselves.

-Confident/secure. Men don’t need to prove they’re men all the time, they’re comfortable enough in their masculinity and their bodies to relax about it, and aren’t afraid that something they’re doing might make them look “less manly.”

I do not think you have to be born with a penis to be a man as many here have said, and some people born with penises remain “boys” their whole lives.

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NinjaOfTheSouth · 2021-01-11T03:09:49+00:00

Basically being a man or women, just translates into a set of looks. Currently anyways

Bandit174 · 2021-01-11T05:01:44+00:00

I guess technically born with male genitals. However, not all men are of equal value and most of that imo seems to be based on physical traits although they will also correlate with social status as well.

A high value man is confident, reasonably intelligent, responds well under stress and physically is tall, has naturally broad shoulders (wide clavicles/collar bone), good facial symmetry with moderate level of sexual dimorphic facial features, thick bone density in arms/legs, deep voice and above average dick size.

The more of those traits a man has the more high value/ alpha/superior he is. And the more more traits a guy has on the opposite ends of the spectrum the more low value/beta/inferior he is.

passepar2t · 2021-01-11T07:36:54+00:00

A real man does thing I want him to do.

KaskyNightblade · 2021-01-11T10:57:54+00:00

Penis and balls.

2021-01-11T13:03:06+00:00

XY karyote or any of the rare intersex abnormalities with a Y sry gene. 1 in 20,000 men have complete androgen insensitivity, which is a birth defect like being born without a leg. Sex is encoded in every zygote at conception, it’s not assigned. In nearly all births it‘s observed and unambiguous.

Gender roles come from taking the differences between men and woman and exaggerating them, for the division of labor and to attract mates. ”Gender” changes throughout a lifetime and throughout history. There are only two.

Nonbinary genders are regressive, conservative and depend on a binary. This holds true for cultures with third genders and transvestites, which are ways to ostracize effeminate men (and masculine women) and create a more socially acceptable way for homosexuality to be practiced in homophobic cultures (see Iran, Phillipines.)

Gravel_Roads · 2021-01-11T15:22:17+00:00

There's gonna be a lot of answers, since "being a man" has both colloquial, behavioral, visual and literal features, and they don't all align with one another.

Colloquially, it tends to refer to being tough, resilient or taking responsibility (ie "be a man", "man up".)
Behaviorally, masculinity is associated with certain behaviors, both positive (ie fortitude, stoicism, proactivity, dependability) and negative (aggressive, single-minded, sexually motivated ect.) People who engage in these behaviors could be described as "acting like a man"/behaving in a masculine manner. (I'm not saying that ALL men have these traits or that it's always accurate; it's just what's associated.)
Visually, a person who dresses, looks or otherwise passes as a man will be perceived as a man (ie whether or not an individual believes in transgenderism, if they do not know a person is trans, they would still categorize that person as a "man" in how they are approached and treated.)
Literally, a man is just an adult that is male.

2021-01-11T17:44:51+00:00

Being a man means you know how to sexually pleasure a woman.

analt223 · 2021-01-11T18:10:05+00:00

Unfortunately we have nothing to define male and female anymore, because its oppression of someone somewhere. Its kinda like how toxic masculinity can only exist, but positive masculinity can't because its somewhat saying that a specific positive attribute is for men and not so much for women.

upalse · 2021-01-12T21:23:34+00:00

Gender theory wise, a narcissistic femme fatale such as Hillary Clinton or Margaret Thatcher fit the bill for "being a man":

Emotionally detached, machiavellian
Power, rather than conformity is their source of validation.
Not depending on FSM.
...

The feminist ideal is for women to become such a "real man". This is fairly difficult masculinity standard for most women to realistically achieve, who subsequently spring back to woman mode of blaming externalities instead of admitting the silliness of aim at unrealistic goals.

Meanwhile, boys are discouraged from trying to become men because it is "toxic" and other shaming tactics. While this passivity is much "easier" to engineer in boys, the end result is awful lack of men (of either biological sex) out in the world. Further, boys usually keep bottled up violent flame of striving for manhood, which can explode at times as incel school shooters and such.

Title	What is a man?
Author	John_Oakman
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Date	January 11, 2021 3:04 AM UTC (3 years ago)
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