Lies About Manhood I Believed Growing Up

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What it means to be a man has changed drastically in the last seventy years or so. Stereotypes still linger in television, sometimes satirical, sometimes not. Some icons of manhood include the lumberjack, the cowboy, the armed defender, the fighter… the list goes on. Slowly our idea of what defines a man is changing; mostly for the better, I think. I was born in the early 90s, which makes me still quite young. Even…