What it means to be a Man

Elijah Claude
2 min readJul 12, 2018

Being a Man is all about being a Provider.

Its about having the strength and means to provide protection, resources, shelter, and even advice.

Being a Man means being strong and powerful and tough and manly.

Real Men have facial hair and muscles and girth and rugged style.

Real Men don’t cry or whine or complain about we have to do. We just do what must be done.

We don’t talk about our emotions, nor should we show how much we care for others in emotional ways.

Being a Man like that is what it means to be a machine.

To be a cold, calculating, inhuman device capable of nothing more than acting without feelings.

We are not machines, we are humans. We are not tools built for some specific purpose, we are animals who just happened to evolve with a little more upper body strength, aggression, and object-oriented attention spans than our counterparts.

Being a man is whatever the hell we decide for it to be.

Masculinity, at least in America, is such a glass cannon of a concept that those of us who subscribe to it are detonating and exploding and imploding at record levels…

Being a man is the same as being a human: dealing with our emotions, desires, limitations, and circumstances as best we can.

Its high time we stop trying to be some mythical ideal Man… and become the men we want to be in life.

Become the type of man that could enjoy they type of life you aspire to.

That is the mark of the true man.

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Elijah Claude
Elijah Claude

Written by Elijah Claude

Philosopher, Imagineer, Erudite.

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