Waverley said- No, you can't think too much. Did someone say being Socrates dissatisfied was better than being a pig satisfied?

Answer- My subtle point was I should do more...

However I enjoy the discussion between Socrates and Cephalus two old men that obviously respect each other deeply. And of course "the unexamined life is not worth living".

A man is a human being that is viewed with distain by the confused sex Left which has an unnatural fear of normalcy.

No Canem Malum, you can't read or think too much, provided your reading is not in place of doing. Knowing what others have thought felt & done gives you your aiming point.

You will also need really knowledgeable great teachers to set you in the right direction to develop whatever latent skills you have. Without this you are unlikely to achieve much.

There is nothing like the feeling that comes through your hands & backside that your horse has seen the jump, knows what you want him to do, trusts you not to ask for something that is too much for him, & is going forward to do it confidently.

The same thing with a car, across the top of the mountain at Bathurst at over 100MPH, when you can feel that even a couple of millimetres a second more would have you off the road.

One thing I have never been able to understand though. If these hands can control a Formula 1 Brabham Repco to the inch, why is it when I write an essay, it looks as if Clancy of the overflow came down to lend a hand, & wrote it for me with a thumbnail dipped in tar.

Oh, would Clancy have passed as a man?

Dear Waverley,

«The author left out the realms of spirituality: who are we? why are we here? what good can we do? And where do we go hereafter?»

He did, but for a good reason: this article, named "what is a man", narrows on men and masculinity.

Even those of us who happen to have a male body, are not men
(similarly, he who had the body called 'Socrates' was not Socrates, nor is whoever has a pig's body a pig).
Masculinity (and femininity) is a property of our body, not of us.
Masculinity, femininity and our body can be described whereas who we are cannot.
These big questions are good of you to ask, but have nothing to do with gender.

I do enjoy this discussion.

Gender is widely used these days as a term .
Why? because it's acceptable to arch-feminists, who don't like biology or terms like sex roles, masculinity .... oh and loads more stuff.

Do we need to restrict ourselves to what the extreme feminists won't object to?

Gender really is a grammatical term. Nouns have a gender.

People have sex roles. They are male or female, according to their basic biology.
I guess that's too simple for the extremists.

Well I know I'm here and if you prod me I will bleed!