lmao

The entire thread here is that answer, you need only an aspiration.

I’m saying I don’t agree with it being specific things

This assumes that it means specific things like enjoying flowers, its leaving behind the boyish immaturity.

Not only does a definition exist in various forms, or at least enough of one to figure it out but the assumption I’m making is that none of us meet the criteria and should aim to be better people.

The point isn’t about moving the goalpost so you win, it is meeting up with a better standard.

You are entirely right in my opinion, society is pretty sucky at making things right for people and so for now this concept of cultivating a mature personality aimed at men is as close as we can get for a simpler way to describe to a general group of people

This a good one

It is a word to describe a state of being, and a state of being that is a good one to have when understood correctly. Like for instance you probably don’t like talking to immature people.

No it goes

act - act - act ow when did my back break

Yeah I could see that

Oh man I cant believe I forgot to mention Adam Savage, that dude is a legend of a role model. He uploads to youtube nearly daily

I think this should be higher up in this thread lol

Also, sleep, diet, exercise.

I’ve been getting into that the past year or so and I wish somebody told me sooner that if you get this basics right, you essentially become a 10x better version of yourself in everything lol

Yeah this is the most best advice in this context tbh. Sometimes it is helpful to meet people where they are too which is often doing things targeted to men.

I think too many people treat masculinity as specific things. This was a quote I stumbled upon just now.

“Masculinity is not the opposite of femininity, but rather the opposite of boyish immaturity”

Like flowers as a gift for example, everyone can enjoy this, the semantics of how it is enjoyed is different for different people.

“Masculinity is not the opposite of femininity, but rather the opposite of boyish immaturity.”

Hmm yeah that’s a good point, I guess I wasn’t clear, I also didn’t really know what I was thinking exactly when I made the post whether examples or resources were best.

I think both is good

Yeah iroh is freaking awesome

For those that don’t know about iroh in atla A video about uncle iroh and masculinity

Doctor K/HealthyGamerGG talking about this on diary of a ceo

I guess at this point I should consider myself a buddhist.

I was raised in a Christian household in the us midwest but never felt drawn to it or any form of sprituality, over the years Buddhism in its many forms kept creeping up on me enough times and explaining things in such elegant ways that I eventually looked into Tibetan Buddhism more closely and realized that once you understand how the symbolism of it all works in terms of connecting the words of practices to actually useful life tips then it becomes a great benefit to yourself and others.

As simply as possible, I chose this route because it is like becoming a scientist of experiences and all the practices we do are things that prove what we experience just as a scientist forms a postulate, a Buddhist forms a practice that leads to some form of awareness.