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I workout 3 times a week (muscles)

I occasionally plink (backyard target shooting)I once shot a 5.56 weapon.

I pee standing up even though I risk showering the toilet with pipi

I let the ladies go first..wait thats gentlemanly

My wallpaper is either a late model DOdge Charger, Challenger or Ford Mustang...will drive one in a year

I feel like masculinity is overrated. I feel that masculinity or 'macho' behavior is too often based on the idea that men ABSOLUTELY have to be testosterone junkies. Moreover they have to be INSENSITIVE and UNCULTURED testosterone junkies. That being said, oftentimes that is just an extreme, however, and manhood is an infinite shade of colors depending on a person. There are many stereotypes of men but not everybody has to feel comfortable with them. It's dependent solely upon who you are. For instance, I have a therapist and a counselor at Fraser Bloomington. The therapist fits more in line with an accepted form of masculinity: He is extroverted, not too much of an intellectual, probably has more generalised tastes in music, is an ardant fan of sports, etc., Whereas my counselor is more in line with an alternative form of masculinity, where he IS into a deeper form of life, and maybe not so much into the other things. For instance, he teaches Yoga, which many may not see as something 'manly'.

I find it interesting, iamnotaparokeet(that is what your name is right?) that you could post about this, because I can absolutely relate to this. As a young teenager I was so confused by the stereotypes that I seemed shoehorned into. At one point I thought I was transexual, I felt that keen of a disconnection. The reason I thought I was transexual was because almost all the guys I knew were more or less testosterone junkies, and the girls and women I knew where exactly the opposite, and that's who I seemed to align with, based on my social or global consciousness, my deeper thinking, more sophisticated tastes, and superior creativity. Now I know I had discolored mental lens and that the truth is I fit into neither of those groups. But that thinking persisted until I started getting into 'men's consciousness' a movement typicalised by books such as iron john. But that had it's pitfalls too. Now I know that I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do to change that to some random setting on a washing machine. I hope everybody can relate to this!(Also: It's okay to have outlets of aggression. It's totally natural. If you like to pursue markmanship, then do that. But don't get that confused with a macho mentality.)

i am only nominally male, in that i have a nominally male body with nominally male functions and urges. i have to periodically shave my face and vent my male essense, so by dint of that i am a male. but i have never felt masculine, ever.

I lift weights 3 times a week. It keeps me fit, strong and makes me feel more masculine. I have beard stubble. My face looks too young without it. I have a mixture of stereotypically male interests and geeky interests.

I'm not a typical male though. I cry a lot when I watch programmes like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I don't like it and try to avoid programmes like that but my girlfriend seems to find it attractive.

Well when I'm not doing the following:

Attaching shiny plastic rims to a 20 year old Skoda to make it look faster
Pretending I know better than my local football team's manager after 6 pints of Stella
Spitting on the floor with an angry look on my face
Making manly groaning noises when a woman walks by so she knows how cool I am
Sighing very loudly while I take a piss so people know 'I'm the daddy of these toilets'
Regaling my other male friends of how I cannot remember the slightest part of the evening before, but somehow make it sound cool
Wearing tight fitting T-Shirts to show off how unfit I am and how in danger my balance is due to my beer belly
Walking with such an exaggerated swagger that I often get mistaken for John Wayne
Talking loudly over quite people because everybody knows the louder I talk the more right I am
Wearing a massive silver coloured cross around my neck so people who don't ask me about religion know how religious I am
Getting massive, inexplicable tattoos that are completely covered by my tight clothing which gives me another excuse I don't need to take my top off
Buying power tools that I leave in full view so when people come round they know how handy I am
Leaning at the bar with a beer because comfortable seats are too far out of the way
Walking around shops making it look like I'm completely lost in that environment and angrily throwing snacks and beer in to my basket which I grip tightly to flex my arm
Farting around people because I know how much the ladies like smelling my innards

I tend to run a lot and keep myself in shape, I'm far too quiet to be 'manly' lol. Feel free to add to the list of comical 'manly' traits

Wow that's sure a lot of things right there!

I feel real manly when I fix stuff, weight-lift, do a lot of pull-ups, or just generally do some kind of sport. Or when I feel like appearing manly among some of my friends I can always drink rum from the bottle in big gulps until they fear I won't leave enough for them (good thing I can already do that legally in this part of the world), and then when I'm done drinking, stop besides whatever they do to convince me otherwise, what I think is even manlier (not implying woman can't stand up for themselves though. Otherwise I'm the kind of guys who worries on having a nice cologne, good clothing that goes well together, likes to talk about feelings, and some other things. Good thing I stopped caring after high school.

I work in the maritime industry. Few professions are more masculine than that.

Lift Weights,Run till I get sick, Shoot stuff, Watch My little pony, and listen to Metal and blast it when I drive.

Hi!

Nothing; I am secure enough in my masculinity to do whatever feels most natural.

Real men are just themselves.

Therefore, I count as a real man.

I have a huge dick.