What is a man?

[FreelanceFiona]

Just thought it was about time someone asked.

Anyone?

Adult
Human
Male

An essence, a feeling, a cheap suit?

It definitely doesn’t have anything to do with Penis.

Snips and snails and puppy dog tails?

So hard to define!
Sometimes I just feel like a man. Maybe I’ll apply for my next job in “man mode” and see if I get paid more.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone asked our politicians and commentators this q. Funny how they don't...

A beard, a bone and a bicycle. Thats a man.

Apologies to Kipling, not.

Someone who is always there to show up to let a woman that she’s doing it wrong.

“It” being anything from walking to fixing something to the woman’s job.

Annoying?

The starting point. Everything is defined from that. A woman is a human that isn’t a man.
Clothes are by definition fir the male body and cost more if you have to deviate from that.
Symptoms of illness and medications are defined for men (women are too unreliable due to hormones)
Being human is being a man. Other types of humans are variations from that.

Sorry. Flip.

This, instead:

Should have mentioned. Any human variation from being a man is lesser than of course

I have heard that the answer is blowing in the wind.
Have you looked there?

Quite right, OP, that is what the question should be but seldom is.

I read a developmental biologist (or someone who knows way more than me, not hard) saying that too. But his reasoning was complex biological stuff.

My reasons are about all this 'what is a woman?' crap harks back to history as in 'the woman question', 'what do women want?' and all that mystical nobody-understands-women garbage. Many women seem to go along with that.

We are half the human race, we are not men, they are not us. We should be alike in rights and dignity. I don't see why that's hard to grasp.

@Nnique

It definitely doesn’t have anything to do with Penis.

How very dare you? All hail the nooble knob! Salute the scared shlong, pattern of humanity, ruler of all, that can do no wrong!

I'm wearing jeans today and haven't got any makeup on and after doing some heavy lifting in the garden I've started to sweat a little in a really manly way. I feel so masculine, ladies I could almost drink a pint. I think today I'm a man

Who cares ?

I am a man. I am a man because I was born male, and have lived a certain number of years. These years change with culture, but here in the UK, 18 usually suffices. I am a man regardless of how I feel, my shoes, what sports I like, if any, how I choose to wear my hair, what toys I played with as a child, my personality, or how masculine/effeminate I may present. My bones, if any remain, will show my man-sex long after I'm gone. This description suits me just fine.

I'm a man. And so is my wife.

I’m feeling kinda manly today with my trousers and short hair.

My boobs may tell another story but they’re not important, it’s all about how I feel, right?

A Non Woman

XY chromosomes. Adult, human, male. No matter what they wear, or how they 'feel'.

It's what baby boys grown into. Like a calf grows into a cow. Oh wait...

Quintessence of dust...

I'm wearing make up and a dress today, and am sipping diet coke in a delicate fashion. Oh, and doing that bleeding from the genitals thing. I'm expanding the bandwidth of what it means to be a man.