When I think about figures who seem to be to be the essence of a man figures such as John Wayne in the cowboy flicks, Vito Corleone in the Godfather films. I was thinking of a good litmus test and thought of happy days, Fonzie strikes me as a man, Howard Cunningham also, but not richie cunningham. I think to me the essence of being a man is someone who has completed the journey from boyhood, rather than someone who is not feminine. I think the points most people have raised correspond with this. |