“I don’t know if there is really one way that a man should be. I think a man should be, well, himself. He should just do what he thinks is right and not what other people want him to be.”

“It was probably a mix of, oddly enough, my mom and my dad who taught me how to “be a man”. My dad taught me to be strong and open-minded towards other people. And my mom taught me not to judge other people or tell them what they should or shouldn’t do. 

I don’t know if there’s something a typical man should be like. I guess…respectful. But usually that’s just common decency to be respectful to others. So yea, that’s a good question, I don’t exactly have an answer for it. 

I think that men have feelings too and we don’t talk enough about the fact that men should be able to be themselves. If a man isn’t able to be himself, then no one will know what he’s truly like, they’ll just know what other people want him to be instead of what he wants to be. If you don’t act like or be yourself around others, they could take you for someone you’re not, and eventually when they learn what you are, they might not like you, and you could feel bad about yourself. So be yourself, and people that like you will like you for being who you are.

A man shouldn’t feel sad. Why? No one ever tells you why, they just tell you not to be.

I’ve had friends in the past and family members even that feel like they can’t show their emotions because it’s not manly to be emotional or feel stuff. Like sadness. I think a man should be himself and be open with his feelings toward other people. I just don’t like being what people think I should be.

If you feel that other people should dictate your life, then it could hurt you mentally to think that you’re not good enough to be a part of society. If we don’t bring this up at a young age, then men, when they grow up, will be just like the typical man, and the cycle will never end. They’ll teach their children that, and their children’s children will teach them that. If it’s not stopped here, then, at a young age, it will just continue. You should know that you are your own worth, and you make your own worth.

Don’t feel like you’re not good enough for other people.