/lit/ - Literature

What is masculinity?

When I've seen it described, or attempted to be described, the answer has always been something vague, and always something that applies to women also, which therein makes it non-specific to the gender.

Historically, the idea of decisive action has been associated with masculinity, which in itself is associated with violence, and the courage to face it.

This has led to masculinity being described as toxic, but even those descriptions are vague and don't really answer the question as to what it is.

Is masculinity a thing? And if so, what is it?

Or is it something unique to all males, something that, as a result of being unquestionably gendered male, we have no say in, and like it or not will be expressed through our personality. And, like a male animal, shouldn't think about it, because we simply are. (In this instance, I would suppose that a mans truest form of masculinity would then arise from the truest expression of himself, which the animal, in its freedom, has no issue attaining)

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Dan Bilzerian is interesting as a kind of Impossible Figure. Here is a man that is handsome, have money, is shallow - like capitalism says one should be - and has lots of bitches. How happy is Dan Bilzerian? Pretty happy. Does DB confirm the capitalist narrative?