Quote Originally Posted by andreasdevig View Post
You strike me as a man who's not afraid of his own femininity or vulnerability, and I admire that.
I don't think these things you mention (awareness of one's vulnerability) are mutually exclusive to expressions of masculinity.

I'm not gonna get into Odysseus (the patriarchal hero) crying in Homer's writings, but the point is that the "traditional" conception we have of gender doesn't go back very far in time and isn't very broad in scope.

Of course, there are different personalities, and everyone tends to express these things a bit differently.