Works that help with manhood

what are some good pieces of literature that will help me become a better man?

Literally the western canon, amigo.

Are you asking for specific suggestions?

The Bible.

>look up philosophers that had their shit together
>read their works
it's not hard senpai

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is the GOAT for this purpose.

A lot of Jack London and Ernest Hemingway is good for this too.

>Plebitations by Marcus Aurelius
Literally inspirational-facebook-quotes-tier

Suggestions please?

Schopenhauer

Don't you have a father or something that was supposed to teach you this shit?

No

>Fucking baby boomers and their two-parent-families
Fuck you and fuck your fucking generation you fucking entitled fucks.

pseud

le father-figures-still-exist meme

it's 2016, patrician patriarchs are historical entities

easy with the edge lad

Now that the workforce is fully open to women, the entire concept of gender is obsolete in the West right now. The only reason it gets spoken of at all is to help people pantomime vestigial ideals for mating purposes.

So, you're better off asking women.

machiavelli

Marcus Aurelius comes to mid, but the best thing you can do to learn about being a man is going out in the real world and get some bruises.

Gender isn't obsolete for the exact reason you alluded to.

Women. Women are still by an large attracted to masculine men and they will never procreate with a man who acts like a woman.

I had a some what strained relationship with my father as a teenager. As a result he taught me very little.

I once asked a coworker to show me how to use something and he says "Didn't your dad fucking teach you that?"

>my soul when

Confessions of a Mask

>and they will never procreate with a man who acts like a woman.
Holy shit the ignorance is off the charts.

Have you heard of dandyism? Or taken a cursory look at popular culture? It's full of lithe bishonen acting feminine, and women lap it up.

dandyism isn't feminine

>and women lap it up

They really don't. They like having them orbiting around and giving them attention, and maybe even have sex with them from time to time, but they are not going to procreate with a wet noodle.

I'd fuck a peacock. Therefore it is feminine.

FPBP

Marcus Aurelius and the stoics.

Great band name

I'm founding it, know how to play bass?

I know how to rub my fingers on catgut tied to the insides of trees, yes.

Which board is smartest, Veeky Forums or Veeky Forums?

You've had your fun.

plato

this.

>Suggestions please?
start with the greeks. Not a meme.

What do you mean by "a better man"? More moral? more educated?

Dude just go read anything by Hemingway. If you aren't and alcoholic with a hairy chest and suicidal thoughts I don't think anything can help you.

Confucian analects

>Dandyism
>Feminine
>

First the basics:
Aristotle - Ethics
Epictetus - Disourses

Then some flavor:
Soseki - Kokoro
Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek

Aristotle basically tells you what a proper fucking man should do, and how men fall to vice. Epictetus will tell you how to not give a fuck about other people without becoming an edge lord. The other two have masculine characters who serve as role models for the effeminate, childish main characters.