[Re-post] The Normal Distribution and the Act Like a Man Box

There are as many ways to be a man as there are individual men. Why are we so terrified of existing outside of the mean?

I've been thinking again about "manhood" and what it means—or what we think it means—to be a man. I was thinking about it a year ago when I first wrote this piece, and I’m thinking about it again today, in the midst of this era of tech bros and podcast bros and overly-pumped-up, heavily tattooed bros yelling at everyone else about what Real Men do and s…