A Man?

What is the defintion of a man? For who knows how long I have been taught that a man is someone who takes care of his family. But that can't be it, can it? Shouldn't a man treat his woman with respect? Treat her as his equal? requinez that his son has become a good man, and is daughter smart and repectable? Shouldn't he provide safty for his daughter when she is scared? Let his kids be kids when they were little not make them grow up so fast? Allow others and himself to admit and make mistakes? To listen when things are hard? To hear people out? To show kindness when it is needed and muscle and tough love when that is needed? The hardest lessons are these ones. But isn't this what a man should be or is this just a defintion of a dad? Are they any diffrent from eachother? Or are they completly the same? Do you not have to be a man and dad at the same time? What brought all these questions on was that my dad began to yell at my mom as if she was a child and if a man did that to me you best bet he would regret it. On a positive note though my brother Franz is back from Iraq and I am so completly happy even if i am sick. He's back safe and alive.