You nailed it. Always hanging out with girls is the easy road. You don’t get challenged in the same ways as with a group of guys. Which means you don’t grow and develop like you should. We need the influence of our mothers and, later, our wives, but never to the exclusion of other men. Great points.

Love the article, Steve, that list you added for men to have these abilities to be respected should be hung in every male space around.
When I was growing up, we had two communities, our community at home with everyone growing up on our street and the surounding blocks, our school community, and you could add on any extracurricular activities, Boy Scouts, Young Marines, Civil Air Patrol, ect.
Us guys were always doing things beyond mere hanging out, and it was just us guys. We hung out with the girls but there was a time we did it, we simply didn’t have them in our activities unless it was the occasional tomboy, and the girls always had their own activities.
To this day, I don’t know what changed this where I just see guys and girls constantly together, sometimes you need the seperation because the boys I see hanging with the girls constantly are picking up the girl’s traits and that’s pretty disturbing to me.

Thanks Hashem. If we listen to society, we’ll never reach our potential as men. Press on, brotha.

Thanks Mike. Keep on pushing forward

Exactly. Great proverb.