The Nonexistence of "Real Men" and "Real Women"

I have too many things that poke a little at my annoyance, and although I'm trying to change my view of the world, I might just as well take advantage of my present state of mind and write some of these thoughts down - although, hopefully they will have diminished later in my life. Anyway, as is the trigger for a decent percentage of my "rants", I saw something on Facebook (surprise!) that just tickled a nerve with a needle. Now, I've seen this in the past, and is not limited to this one instance, but as I'm finally expressing these ideas through this blog, I can really let myself go and mention it.

"Real men". Puh-lease. I feel like most of you know what I'm talking about already; the distinction between "boys" and "men" is a widespread, simplistic view of the male definition. People don't think (what's new there... *bitter Nic*) about how stupid this sounds: "Real men know how to treat a woman.", "Real men know how to use a wrench.", "Real men hold hands with their girlfriend when they're brushing their teeth."

STFU.

"Real men" do not exist - they never have, and they never will. Do you want to know why? (probably not, but this is my world so I'm going to pretend like you do) Because grouping males into "boys" and "men" is childish, over simplified, and feeds the social constructs that humans are supposed to behave a certain way, robbing them of their uniqueness.

There are males that exist that are very proficient at fixing cars, males that love to dance, males that like to do drugs, males that drive fast cars, males that dress up in "women's" clothing, and about a trillion combinations of different aspects of life. They are, merely (or completely?) human, defined as male based on their physiology, but their thought process should/is/trying to be unique to them as humans, and as such, should be understood as a person before they are seen as "men", or more aptly, more neutral, as males. So, that is why "real men" do not exist. You have your preferences for the people you would like in your corner, but because those who do not prescribe to your corner of people does not make them any less than human.

Now, does this only apply to men? Nay, no, never, nein, non. Females are often held to some weird social standard, too. The exact same argument can be made for females, as well; I simply made the argument for men, because I am more familiar, its closer to home, and I wanted to simplify my explanation. However, females have a different physiology, and as such, are different in that respect (irrefutably), but their minds are open to uniqueness that should be left unbound and unchained to social restriction that we all, in some shape or another, hate (I REALLY need to write about how we all hate social stigma and yet, we feed it to ourselves and pressure it on one another without any idea why).

That's my piece.

Listening to: Backstreet Boys, "Larger than Life" (Come at me, brohemio)