What are some of the qualities of a real man?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n This is a vast question, one that the Globe and Mail is trying to answer by asking some writers their thoughts on the matter. I am flattered to say that I was one of the writers they asked, and this was my response:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n *********************************<\/p>\n A real man must have a healthy respect for nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A real man knows that humidity is a festering curse, so if the Humidex rises much above 30, he\u00a0will stay inside with the AC cranked. He does this because he is smart and powerful and worldly. The real man never retreats, he merely lies in wait until favourable conditions arise.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A real man is also wary around birds.<\/p>\n He believes flight to be cheating and does not trust cheaters.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n If any cheater birds come around a real man’s family, that bird would be a fool. A real man will wave his arms about and shriek, he will do whatever it takes to keep that bird from attacking his family.<\/p>\n Even if his family can be ungrateful and mocking.<\/p>\n That sort of stuff just rolls off a real man’s back.<\/p>\n A real man knows how to build a scarecrow to keep birds off the property he rents, too. If the real man lacks money because of his integrity, because he’s unwilling to be a sheep and get a \u201cjob\u201d working for some soulless corporation or media conglomerate, then he will scavenge goods to create his scarecrow, and his scarecrow would be just as good, and a lot more scary, than any fancy, professionally manufactured scarecrow.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A real man is not scared to use coupons.<\/p>\n He is industrious. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And his fearfulness makes him fearless.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And if he cries easily, like when Jon Snow had to kill his red-headed, Wildling girlfriend on GOT, or when a sweet, little gymnast just nails the program she’s worked so hard on, it is only because he feels things so strongly.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n