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Some guys say that \"real men\" follow their own favorite sports team or do whatever men in their own group like to do. Priests and preachers insist that you can only be a \"real man\" if you follow their religion. Feminists claim either that masculinity doesn't exist or that if it does, it is \"toxic\" or \"outdated.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Way of Men\u003c\/em\u003e argues that masculinity is timeless and rooted in the primal nature of our species. For hundreds of thousands of years, men all around the world fought together in small and competing groups as they struggled to survive. 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