What does it mean to be a man?

[TheReligiousLeft]

As a 19 year old male liberal with a month left in Wyoming it seems to me being a man these days means being violent, dirty and humping anything that is female. When given the word "man" the image that pops into someone's head would be John Wayne or Gdub, not Ghandi or MLK Jr.
It seems America has been sold on the idea that manhood is not about being caring, but being the strongest. The world where all men are philosophers has been replaced with a world where all men are prize fighters.
It just seems that violence has become so socially acceptable that ads for Fireworks refer to the conflict in Iraq (something to the effect of "We blew up those rag heads real good, now let's blow stuff up to celebrate"). I don't know, looking around at what people want men to be it doesn't make much sense.
I'm going off to work, when I get back I want to see tons of answers to the following questions.
1. What does it mean to be a man?
2. What does it mean to be masculine?
3. Why has violence/conflict become an acceptable trait to cultiviate as a male?
4. Why has constant sex replaced the value of loving relationships?
5. Movies today sell to the lowest common male denominator, sex and violence, why?
Okay, that's enough for now, I'm excited in seeing what all of you come up with.

Shalom all,
Chris