I tried to look for the answer online and wasn't satisfied with the answers I found. I tried to look for the answer on reddit but all the answers were unsatisfying and gay.
So I am here to ask you one of the most important questions of this century.
What does it mean to be a man? What is the core nature of a man? What is a man? What is the purpose of a man?
I could not come up with a satisfying answer for it. I tried to see it from the perspective of how we interpret other species and their roles within the environment. I tried to interpret is based on the role of man in caveman days, then the tribal days, then the medieval era, and I did not find a satisfying answer.
I look at the present and I know that whatever is our current contemporary answer for what is a man is obviously wrong, because most of mankind appears to be miserable with their existence and lost.
So again, I ask you instead in search of the final answer to this important question, in a world where we are either stuck forever watching women and their role being define, or watching women telling men what a man is supposed to be, according to the men of rdrama, what is a man at his core?
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The essence of a man is agency.
A man who is kittywhipped by his wife into humiliating rituals is no man.
A man who is buck broken by his boss and never fights back is no man.
This explanation neatly ties up why many women find both rich white boomers and black gang bangers attractive - in their own way, both display the power to affect change in both their personal lives, and their interpersonal relationships. The hood neighbor may be broke, may be poised to die at 31 in a shootout, may lie and steal and cheat to survive, but he displays the quality that he can pursue a goal (no matter how insignificant) and achieve it.
For a woman, she desires a man who can do things. She is carnally attracted to a man who gives the appearance of someone who can put their mind to something, and meaningfully affect the world. Note that the appearance of such capability is what matters for the attraction, which is why women may get "the ick" once she has seen through the façade of a charlatan.
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but what is a man to another man? what is a man in the absence of a woman?
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False thinking. Pumping a woman full of spooge and siring offspring is the only true purpose to life, so there is no such thing as a man in absence of a woman. Men compete for the ability to do so, and thus men see other men on the same playing field.
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Interesting. Thank you for that input.
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