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A question

What's the difference between acting out* your masculinity and living out your masculinity?


*Acting Out is performing a behavior in order to express thoughts or feelings the person feels incapable of otherwise expressing. It's compulsive, without choice or control. Acting out anger, for instance, usually means breaking something instead of saying something.



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