In our legal system, we grant particular freedoms to young men at ages 16, 18 and 21, even knowing their brains have not yet fully developed. We are edging them to manhood without really defining what manhood means. On hitting the magic number 21, young men imagine manhood opens the door to all the vices.
With many professions—nursing, plumbing, electrician, teaching, cosmetology, real estate and more—there are exams which must be passed to qualify for a license to practice that profession.
I propose we should have a manhood exam--to be thoughtfully developed—that would qualify those who passed to exercise the privileges of manhood. (This would force us to really think about what manhood means.) Any man who passed would be given his manhood card, complete with discounts and benefits. Women would surely benefit from knowing a man was a manhood card carrier.
Personally, I think I would be grandfathered in. What about you?
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