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What Does The Bible Seem To Say About Being A Man?

A brief investigation.

Ted Bauer
8 min readJun 16, 2023

At this point, I’ve written more things about masculinity online than I could probably count on six hands. It’s kind of ironic, because in conventional definitions of masculinity, I don’t really check a ton of boxes. I haven’t sired children, unfortunately. I’m not some huge money-making guy. I’m not always in the best shape. It can be a depressing landscape, if I’m being completely honest. I think I’m good at some other stuff not always associated with guys, like conversation and vulnerability, but I mean: how much does that matter?

I’ve openly speculated before on what it even means to be a man:

Honestly, I don’t really know. I think part of the question comes back to the idea of: Do you think masculinity is changing or pivoting in some way

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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