TW: mentions of Brock Turner’s actions, Alton Sterling’s murder, Omar Mateen, and generally all the horrible things men do.
What does Manhood mean?
Does it mean a penis?
Strength?
Courage?
If it means a penis, is it having the body organ, or does it mean being able to have sex with one long into the night?
If it means strength, is it the strength in recovering from a personal loss, or the strength in winning a fight?
If it means courage, is it the courage to defend your friend from hurt or the courage to hurt someone before they get you?
Is Manhood something that can be proved?
Can I prove it if I turn people into pieces?
If I stay in business because I squeeze profit
from the labor of people whose wages I cut?
If I move a troop into someone’s home
so I can massacre my way into new territory?
If I turn a woman into a thing to use
and throw her away when I’m done?
Is Manhood achieved by doing?
If I follow through with a painful act because it would be weak to stop?
Did Brock Turner prove he was a man when he raped a woman behind a dumpster?
Did Omar Mateen prove he was a man when he killed 49 people in a gay club where he was a regular?
Did Howie Lake and Blake Salamoni prove they were men when they apprehended, subdued, prosecuted, sentenced and executed Alton Sterling before he had a chance to defend himself?
Can I prove my Manhood by how I cope
with sadness, rejection and failure?
If I accept my weakness,
am I strong?
If I feel my fear,
am I brave?
If I allow despair to come,
will it go before it hurts anyone else?
Can I be a man by how I react
instead of how I act?
Can my strength be my adulthood
my courage be my heart
my penis be my body
and my manhood come
second (third, fourth, ninth) to who I am
and call it a day?
Originally Published at The Mellow Dramatist
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What does Manhood mean? – The act of living as an adult MAN within the society that one chooses to live. Manhood is an umbrella term that encapsulates everything that makes for the entirety of any Male, whom is of legal age (in that particular society). Just as not every woman is exactly the same, not every man will act in 100% exactly the same fashion, any group will have outliers to the mean, are those outliers still apart of the group, of course the are. Does it mean a penis? – Yes, that is a part of living as… Read more »