I came across this today and I can't tell you how true it is. Even from my perspective being an older man, I graduated high school in 1997 and to this day I find I have to define for myself what it means to be a man. Through no problem with my own father, who I have a sense struggles with the exact same thing but does not know how to talk about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/upshot/boys-men-mentors.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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