what makes a man... I can't say I have the credibility or criteria to universally answer this question, but in my twenty-three years I think I have a little bit to say on what doesn't make a man.
what doesn't make a man:
-allusiveness. the moody drifting of a troubled mind lost in over-analytic, useless thought. it leads a man to pull away when he isn't even so sure that that is what he wants. he just pulls away from the world altogether which takes him right back to square one. alone in a mess of tainted thought.
-saying things he doesn't mean. this is what boys do. don't invite a gal to one's home to be with one's family on Easter if one has no intentions of getting past next week. how does that formulate in one's mind, even? this is lacking in consideration for the person of interest's routine and life when one plans for things without a backing intention of doing what he says.
-acting like a small child. yes. five year old girl style. moody, unapologetic, no confrontation when in the same five foot vicinity of each other for an hour and a half. because ignoring and pretending to be shy is much more of a trait of a five year old temper tantrum than of an actual man.