I’m a straight man and I’m comfortable in my gender and sexual identity etc I just don’t feel the need to do anything stereotypically “masculine”. Maybe it’s just because I never felt like labels or categories define you or limit you. I just do me and what I enjoy and don’t worry too much about societal expectations.
But I read on here a lot of people who do seem to care about this stuff. Saying things like “the man always wants to be the provider”. Talking about what it means to be a man in the 21st century, and how masculinity has changed.
I’m not denying these people’s experiences, just curious about the difference- why you do feel it’s important to asset a masculine role or identity? Or why not? What even is “masculinity”?
Men and women are predisposed towards different things. It doesn’t mean those things are exclusively for men or women, but overall men and women tend to have different interests. As the old adage goes, men care more about things, women care more about people.
So when a man is interested in things that women generally go for, those can be seen as feminine traits, and vice-versa.