I&#x27;m sometimes intrigued that working class men have the time and energy to worry about abstract concepts like &quot;what it means to be a man&quot;. Things relating to gender sometimes seems like something academics would care more about. Or people with more comfortable jobs and more time on their hands.<p>But really people from all spheres of life have strong, weak, but at least <i>some</i> opinion about stuff like that. _That_ is even weirder. That we can&#x27;t just express ourselves how we are, but have to doubt and second-guess things within some identity framework.