Who many of you consider legends are quite the opposite. Much dogma solicited here are myopic, self-limiting, and will only lead to temporal, unsatisfying, improvident relations at best.
For example, when you hear the maxim, "Only worry about serving your own needs," that's great to develop a backbone (if you have none), but if you continue serving only your needs and ignoring everyone else's, you will find yourself with shallow or no relations whether personal or business from which to proliferate.
Actually, most of the dogma on this site will lead you nowhere. There are gems of truth, but real truth, in its finest form, is fluid depending on the context.
The site provides good training wheels for those with no backbone, but from there each poster must tailor his approach with practicality as the situation merits.
In short, understand the guidelines of masculinity, but be fluid in approach.