Similar experience here - I have some &quot;old fashioned&quot; ideas but also a lot of progressive ones, I don&#x27;t think they need be mutually exclusive.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve realised over the past few years (I&#x27;m 22) is the importance of feeling masculine. Not in the generic socially prescribed sense necessarily, but in my own way, that took a lot of contemplation about &quot;what makes me feel masculine?&quot; and obviously the specifics will be different for every man (and I equally think it&#x27;s important for women to feel feminine in a way which empowers them), but it has made me feel so much more confident and empowered as a human being to be more in touch with my roots so to speak.