Does positive masculinity exist? Men correct the woman.

[Aroura]

Aroura, if you can define "positive masculinity" I may have more to say.

I certainly meet and fulfill many (not all) of the masculine roles that my society has given me. Bread winner, cars, home maintenance, driving, opening doors, carrying the heavy stuff, picking up the check, defense from threats, grilling, killing spiders, putting down the pets, .....................

Some of you will say, yeah, but a woman can do all that stuff also. Fair enough. But understand this, my wife chooses not to perform any of these tasks. It's her expectation that these duties are required from me in the relationship, and I have no problem with that. She also has a list of tasks that she considers her feminine responsibility even though I could complete most of them also. 

I guess my point is that in a relationship, each partner will need to define the role(s) of the participants, be they masculine, feminine or neutral.

I shouldn't have deleted my OP or changed the title. Sorry about that. I appreciate the level headed reply.

I do believe it exists, and I tried to give examples.  Loyalty, bravery, protectiveness, and providing were some on my list.  I suggested Samwise Gamgee as a good pop culture role model, a man who was down to earth, loyal to friends, emotionally open and kind, but also fierce and brave.

Thank you for your examples, I think they are good ones.  There are still many gender related behaviors that we socially accept as normal, and there isn't really anything wrong with people fulfilling these roles as long as they are happy to do so.

The point of my post had very little to do with if a woman or man can perform certain tasks or if they can have certain qualities.  I just wanted to discuss what good qualities we might teach young men today in place of negative ones our culture sometimes emphasises.