When did you become a man?

[Symphonic]

Men:

1. At what age do you believe you became a man?

Right about the time I stopped worrying about "becoming a man". The year itself is something I never felt the need to take note of, but I was about nineteen or so.

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

The simple realization that there is no such thing.

3. How do you define what being a MAN means?

Being a "man" is simply realizing that the strings you're bound in by society are about as real as your imaginary friends from childhood.

Strange opinion from a strange guy.

 

[bld_64]

When/how did I become a man? When I was finally able to put the needs of those I love ahead of my own. Can't really attach it to any one time or event....although, there was this one time - at summer camp...

 

[actioncfc]

FIRST PART:I had to think about this one for a long long time. The day my dad died in my arms a few days before his 50th birthday. I was 16 years old and I had to help my mom close out his business and pretty much gave up my senior year activities to work more. I still did a lot of the senoir year things like prom etc though.

SECOND PART: When I helped the rest of my family take over the care of my brothers kids due to his drug habits. I have not been in the same room w him in over 15 years. I don't hate him, but I can not find one good thibg to say about him. Most of my moms jewelry is gone along w my only necklace I wore of my fathers.

 

[D_Mylor Mentallydaft]

1. At what age do you believe you became a man?

21, when I was handed a folded hat and pin and a man who had seen me as week and unworthy looked me in the eye and shook my hand.

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

The first time, in the course of natural claculation, considered something else before myself.

3. How do you define what being a MAN means?

It means the right to respect and the willingness to stand tall and answer for what you've done, because good or bad, proud or ashamed you did what was right.

Thanks in advance. There is only so much research a gal can do on her own. I want to hear from the Subject Matter Experts themselves

 

[bigbull29]

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

Supporting my parents financially when my dad got colon cancer (he's still alive, fortunately).

Dude, you are a MAN! You should be very proud of yourself (I know I am). And I'm so happy to know your daddy is still with you. :smile:

Society fails to see that adult children are just as responsible for the parents as parents are to their children. I would take care of my mother, father and sister in a flash. They are everything to me.

 

[Markdarcy]

1. 31
2. When I quit alcohol
3. "A Knight is sworn to Valour"
"His Heart knows only Virtue"
"His Blade defends the Helpless"
"His Might upholds the Weak"
"His Words speak only Truth"
"His Wrath undoes the Wicked"

 

[Pitbull]

Men:

1. At what age do you believe you became a man?

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

3. How do you define what being a MAN means?

Thanks in advance. There is only so much research a gal can do on her own. I want to hear from the Subject Matter Experts themselves.

You have them in the wrong order.
#3 should be first.
And that is the hardest part of the question.
If I can figure that one out - the other parts are easy.

I can't answer that question.
The thing I can answer is things that real men do not do.

Real men do not:
1.) Hit women - even if they deserve it
2.) Abandon their children
3.) Cheat
4.) Any negative behavior related to mistreatment of women or children (especially their own) or any kind of lying or dishonesty
5.) real men are not cowards - ever

Do I think I am a real man?
Yes.
Do all men think they are real men?
Yes.

Age?
Don't have defining events.
Life is more like the sun rising and heating up the day.
Not an explosion that starts a fire.

Not when I got a job.
That was 12.
Financially responsible for myself - to some extent that was at 14.
Paid my tuition and loaned my mother the money to buy a car so she could take me to school.

Defining moments.
Becoming a father.
(And every day I need to redefine myself)
Dealing with an important death (my wife).

I try to always do the right thing.
If the easy way is not the right way - I don't take it!

This is not exclusively a man thing.
Women can and do it also.
Called character.

 

[greatdickismydrug]

No one answers a question like you do Pitbull. After reading your response, I'm going to fetch an ice pack for my head and a Shiner for my belly.

That being said, I'm glad your back. We missed you...you big, naughty, dog.

 

[Pitbull]

No one answers a question like you do Pitbull.

That being said, I'm glad your back. We missed you...you big, naughty, dog.

No one asks them like you do.

Missed me?
I'm in your back yard.

 

[Wish-4-8]

I would say the day I stood up to my father and didnt care about the consequences because I knew I would be OK, whatever the outcome. Probably in my early 20's. On many levels it was a turning point because I knew things would never be the same after that.

I think I earned his respect too, after he got over the sting. I like to think he defines that moment as the day he saw me as a man for the first time.

 

[jdoe86]

I barely feel human.

More Human Than Human... White Zombie (sorry, I had to say it)

 

[xrush_uncut]

1. At what age do you believe you became a man?

19

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

Being financially independent for 1 year, having fiance and her baby rely on me for food, shelter, and suppport. Putting their needs above mine, skipping lunch because I couldnt afford it and diapers.

3. How do you define what being a MAN means?

Putting myself last, being financially dependent. Being able to seperate needs, wants, and 'have to'. Standing up for what you beleive, even when its consequential to you. But biting your tongue and swallowing that pride when it would hurt those you love.

Keep it up. Life definitely isn't easy. All that responsibility and a hot body too. I am 33 and still don't think I would be ready to take care of a child.

 

[helgaleena]

I barely feel human.

You are human until Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' sounds like it isn't satire :redface:

 

[talldarknathletic]

1. At what age do you believe you became a man?

Quoting PitBull (well put)
"Life is more like the sun rising and heating up the day.
Not an explosion that starts a fire."

This question is hard because I look at my grandfather as a "man" but don't look at my father as a "man". I think my grandfather's life experiences have built him up to being the man I want to be. That being said, I am a man in training until I stop learning, doing, teaching, loving, observing, listening, destroying, creating...

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

If I looked at the events that equate to manhood as a bell curve I feel as if I am in the first 1/4 of my journey.

3. How do you define what being a MAN means?

The definition of MAN to me has a continuous time function involved. If my task is to keep a bucket with holes in it full of water I will need to constantly add water to keep this bucket at a positive "man" level.

"The combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, esp. courage, honor, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak." Mac OSX dictionary for chivalry.

Continue this through life and you will be a man.

(Sorry, stepping off my soap box now...)

 

[TheRob]

you are probubly going to get a lot of sexual answers because you are on a sex site so be prepared heh

 

[D_Bob_Crotchitch]

When Cigarbabe told me I was a man. I remember it was in the garage behind her house. She was beating me with a whip and I said nothing. She said oooh you take it like a man.
Ask her, and she'll tell you when you're a man.

 

[Symphonic]

You are human until Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' sounds like it isn't satire :redface:

I'm 'n trouble.

 

[helgaleena]

I'm 'n trouble.

Are you ready for Soylent Green? Or Hannibal Lecter's deep freeze?

 

[B_cigarbabe]

When Cigarbabe told me I was a man. I remember it was in the garage behind her house. She was beating me with a whip and I said nothing. She said oooh you take it like a man.
Ask her, and she'll tell you when you're a man.

Yes he took my whip and fist like a man but he kisses like a full lipped woman!
Of course he didn't tell you about how he screamed like a little girl when I fisted him!
It takes a wide open man to fisted by a lady.
C.B.:saevil:

 

[D_Langhorne Hangsleft]

Men:

1. At what age do you believe you became a man?

2. Event that brought you over the threshold of manhood?

3. How do you define what being a MAN means?

Thanks in advance. There is only so much research a gal can do on her own. I want to hear from the Subject Matter Experts themselves.

1. I believe it's around the age of 15-20

2. One event is when I started taking care of myself or when I'm doing hard physical tasks without having the help of my dad. I wanted to show him that I could do things by myself and that I don't need his help.

3. Being a MAN is when you start taking responsibilities for your own self such taking care of your family, your loved ones and to be a hard-worker.

There's so much more to add on that third question, but i'm gonna leave it at that.