Anyone identify with being feminine? How about masculine?

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I will talk about myself as a hetero man and others like me. This may very well describe only a a portion of the people described anyway. I dont know.

I've found that men, including me, tend to treat other men differently than women, for example. Very differently. You are in a competition with a man, whereas a woman you don't find a threat so you have a way more relaxed demeanor towards, generally speaking. This difference is a very subtle one to distinguish from your interactions, I think,but it's definitely there. 

I think masculinity is about feeling a certain amount of responsibility over your surroundings. You feel the need to protect others rather than just yourself. You feel more like putting yourself in harms way when necessary to help another. That can make you more aggressive and apprehensive by nature. 


I don't much like being over the top masculine. It doesn't suit me, I think, yet this is who I've turned into over time. I was much happier identifying as a mere person and taking everything lightly beforehand. If you ask me it's something that should be reserved to people like the military, the police, firemen and so on. In normal social situations this quality shouldn't exist. It's toxic and irrational.