What is a man?
And why does it matter?
3 min readAug 18, 2022
What is a man?
The only answer I really care about is “whatever you want it to be”. Like all men, I’ve spent my life in a context of weirdly reductive, gender essentialist expectations — a man is physically strong, competitive, aggressive, stoic — that I couldn’t live up to because, generally speaking, that’s not what I am. Am I less of a man because I’m not aggressive…
