Well, I’d say the essence of manhood distilled down is aiming for victory and camaraderie. How that comes out depends on your social situation. How you’re a man’s man depends on the world you live in. I do great when socializing with salespeople because I think like a salesperson. That’s how I hunt and those are my fellow hunters. I have a working class-ish background and early on, equated the right-wing with defending those roots. I sometimes ended up in rooms with bikers or skins. I had little in common with them - they don’t hunt how I hunt for their food. What they get in credibility from tattoos, I get from credentials and building rapport. Your manhood has a lot to do with how you eat and a lot of the time people get insecure when they’re comparing apples and oranges.

The other part of being a man is knowing how to fight and how to say f’ it. I live austerely so I don’t need much and I know how to argue and how to fight. I don’t look like much but that only gives you an element of surprise over people :)