Women want a masculine man so they can be feminine and feel safe.

In this world with so often hear about toxic masculinity.  

But the truth is that there is no such thing as toxic masculinity, only toxic men.

Being a strong, masculine man sets you on a path of attraction and prosperity. 

Women are attracted to masculine traits, because that masculinity compliments their femininity. 

But what does it mean to be masculine, and how can you develop masculinity in yourself.

Below I’ll show you 11 masculine traits women love and how to embrace them in your life.

1. Confidence is King when it comes to masculinity

Confidence is the quintessential masculine trait. 

Nothing is more attractive to a woman than a confident man. 

In every study done, confidence is rated as the most attractive trait a man can have. 

And it’s because confidence usually comes from somebody’s competence. 

Confidence in man comes across as leader ship, as ambition is having a drive toward success. 

When a man confidently walks into a room, holding himself up high, he owns that room, and he owns the attraction of every woman in it. 

Confidence is something that I struggled with as a young man.

However it’s also something you can learn and is pretty easy to once you get going.

When I was involved in politics I had an executive coach and a big part of her work was building and teaching confidence techniques.

There are simple things like taking a moment to breath and center yourself before entering a place or even something as simple as just holding your posture better and taller.

Or trying to realize that the people who are talking with you genuinely want to know what your thoughts are, hence why they’re talking with you, so speak up.

These little things help relieve the anxiety, adrenaline and cortisol effects on our bodies that take our confidence away.

And something as stupid sounding as speaking up and being a bit louder, actually does make you appear much more confident to people.

Related: 15 stoic traits women love

2. Independence is the 1 masculine trait that builds the rest  

Masculine men are fiercely independent. 

They’re the men who explored the globe, built societies and lead people through history.

Truly masculine men don’t need to rely on the rest of society to help them up or help them feel good because he knows he can rely on himself. 

Instead, a masculine man pushes towards his own goals, with his own ambition in his own drive. 

Women love, independent men, because an independent man provides for, and takes care of himself. 

She can take one look at his competence and equate that to being a good provider and partner in the future.

Independence is a sign of strength in yourself, while neediness and clinging are signs of weakness. 

When women look at men as partners, they look at the entire life, they are building. 

And when they see an independent man who is working to build his own life with his own dreams, they want to attach themselves to that kind of person. 

To become more independent, you have to be willing to start taking on more challenges and responsibilities because with that comes the internal strength and competence to become truly independent.

Related: 15 ways a man can boost his confidence and attraction with the ladies

3. Taking on responsibility is giving your masculine energy

Responsibility is a very masculine trait that attracts women because they can see how it directly ties to the kind of partner and provider a man would be to her.

If a woman loses her job, loses her home gets into trouble there will be someone to help her. 

There will be a white knight of a man to come pick her up or a simp, hoping to save the day or her family that won’t let her fail. 

But as a man, it’s up to you to pick yourself up. 

The rest of the world doesn’t care about your problems.  

Nobody’s going to be there to help pick you up when you fail. 

Instead, you have to have the internal strength and the responsibility to pick yourself up from your own failures. 

By taking responsibility for your old life, you take responsibility for your own success or your own failure. 

And one failure is nobody else’s fault, but yours a man will pick himself up and learn to succeed. 

In that sense of responsibility shows a woman that a man can actually achieve something in life. 

Responsibility shows women that you are building a life worth attaching themselves too. 

But it starts small, you don’t have to take on the world, just start with taking on one thing in your life today.

Related: 13 stoic questions that will change your life

4. Honesty makes a masculine man

Part of having a masculine fortitude is being honest and open. 

It takes very little strength to lie to somebody. 

In fact, lying takes weakness more than anything else. 

Whereas honesty is always seen as a sign of strength. 

When it comes to the attraction of a woman, a man who can’t be trusted with the most simple things definitely can’t be trusted with a relationship. 

Honesty in a man signals so much more than just not lying.

It signals to her that he isn’t going to be playing games with her, isn’t a cheater, and isn’t going to be trying to hide things in a relationship.

A man who is open and honest with her, is showing that he has a sense of loyalty and commitment as well as being emotionally available to her.

5. Purpose is the trait drives a masculine man

Masculine men have purpose, and that purpose is what drives them into their future. 

A man’s purpose is so much more than what he wants to do in life. 

And men who lack purpose often end up going nowhere in life. 

Think of your high school friends the ones with no goals no ambitions, no purpose. 

How are they doing now? 

Are they living the life that you would want to live?  

Are they living a life that attracts women? 

A man with purpose pulls in women by intriguing them with ambition. 

And it is because purpose is what leads a man to push himself to become greater than he was yesterday. 

To find a purpose as a man you have to first find a goal in life, and then you have to make a plan to get from where you’re at now to that goal and put in the everyday effort to keep moving forward.

Related: 15 traits of a confident man that drive women wild

6. Kindness  shows the heart of masculinity

How often do we hear masculinity associated with aggression and violence? 

How much does our society try to push on our boys, that kindness is weakness, aggression as a sign of strength? 

When it comes to men, kindness is a masculine trait.  

Because kindness takes strength, it takes a viewpoint of looking out for other people instead of looking out only for yourself. 

A survey by the University of Göttingen of 68,000 people across 180 countries found that kindness was the single greatest sought after trait in a potential partner.

Mean men aren’t seeing a strong.

They’re seen as weak, too weak to deal with their own problems, so they take out their aggression on others. 

Mean and aggressive men are looked at by women as weak and unsafe.  

While a man who is strong and kind is seen as a safe haven by women, he is seen as the kind of masculine man who is a protector at heart.

In fact, research into dating profiles has even shown that women will view a man with kinder photos as more attractive.

Related: 11 reasons why women love masculine men

7. Generosity is a trait of the masculine 

Generosity is one of those masculine trait, a cut a lot deeper than the others. 

And the reason why I’m in so much is because it shows a woman your heart. 

And an entire gambit of research studies has shown that generosity is one of the key male mating and attraction factors.

When a guy is being either stingy or generous towards people, that shows a lot more about what kind of provider he is. 

When a woman says a man being generous towards others, it shows that not only can you provide for himself, but he can reach out and give that provision towards others as well. 

So when you’re out on a date, be kind to the waitress and be generous. 

Your date will absolutely take notice. 

Just be sure to avoid trying to make a big deal out of it because then it goes from generosity to being braggadocios.

If you point out something like a big tip, it changes that from being an act of generosity into being one of self-serving. 

Just remember, generosity doesn’t have to equal money, a man can be generous with his time and energy that he gives towards others as well.

Related: 11 reasons why women stay away from the nice guy

8. You can’t be a masculine man without courage 

The idea that courage is a masculine trait, shouldn’t come as any surprise. 

Courage has been hailed as the quintessential masculine trait, for centuries from warriors, fighting over the honor of a woman to soldiers standing against the evils of the world. 

And even today, women are more attracted to men who display courage in response to stress and danger.

Men should be fearless, right? No. 

And any man who tells you he is fearless is lying. 

We all have fears fear is a natural part of life.  

But courage is doing what’s right and what must be done regardless of the fear you are feeling. 

Courageous man faced their fears head on. 

They don’t try to find a way around that we’re getting out of a hard situation. 

And that is hugely attractive because at the end of the day a woman can see that a man of courage will not let small things stop him.

He will not allow his own mind or laziness to get in the way of his success and he won’t let things like insecurity push them apart.

Related: 15 most attractive hobbies a man can have

9. Dominance is masculine, dominating isn’t 

Women love a dominant man. 

Now before we go further, I need you to know that I am talking about being a dominant man, not a man who is dominating.

There’s a huge difference between being dominant and dominating.

A dominant man is one who leads. 

He can make decisions for himself and his family, without input from people who don’t need to give it. 

But it’s also having the where-with-all to look at a situation and know when he does need to get input or to give that say to someone else, especially his woman.

And this is an everyday thing. 

In the book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture from Oxford Press, states that studies have shown women respond very positively to actual dominance in males. But note even they said actual dominance and not domination.

It starts by being decisive in the small decisions in life like where are we going to eat dinner? 

A dominant man will say honey I want to take you out to so-and-so restaurant. 

He doesn’t ask her where she wants to eat.  

This is something that actually used to drive me crazy about my wife in our relationship.

If I ever asked where she wanted to eat she put it back on me, and while I wanted to get her input, she was concerned about my needs and wants being met.

In other words, her indecisiveness is often her wanting to make sure you are meeting your wants to the fullest.

Don’t make it another decision she has to face that day and one where if she chooses wrong there’s the possibility of you being upset or wanting something different. 

Instead of her having to choose what, where and when to eat, give her the experience of her dominant man taking her out to dinner. 

If you can become a leader in your old life, women will naturally be attracted to that spirit. 

They will see you as a dominant man who’s in charge and in control of where is going in life. 

10. Masculine men don’t take offense at small things 

Did somebody hurt your feelings? Too bad you’re a man get over it. 

Taking offense is a sign of weakness, insecurity and a lack of confidence. 

It’s a sign that you are so weak minded and have such a lack of confidence that you allow some interaction to offend and upset you. 

Taking offense signals meekness to a woman because it shows them that you are not in control of your emotions. 

And the man who can’t control his own emotions generally won’t be able to control himself when faced with hard decisions like a beautiful woman, flaunting herself or things like addiction or porn. 

But for women it goes even deeper.

A weak-minded man is seen as the kind who won’t be ready to give up the things he wants, for those things his family needs. 

Instead, the guy who can roll with the punches shows true masculinity, and strength. 

It shows that he isn’t pushed around by the emotions others make them feel, but instead is in control of himself and his life. 

11. Masculine men possess physical strength 

This is one of my hard points for a lot of guys.

If you’ve let yourself go physically you need to shape up. 

No woman is physically attracted to a fat ass let’s just be honest. 

It’s a hard truth but you need to understand that women are biologically driven to be attracted to a strong fit man. 

Just as you are biologically, driven to be attracted to a beautiful, fit woman. 

Your physical health and fitness are the greatest visual signal a woman can get as to the kind of mating potential you have. 

It’s a judgement on your genetics and your lifestyle. 

It might not sound fair but the world isn’t fair. 

You need to hit the gym or at the very least you need to find some heavy stuff to lift. 

You might not be able to control the looks you were blessed with or not. 

But one thing you can control one thing that catches the eyes of women more than a pretty face is your body. 

Losing the gut, then getting a view taper will completely change the way women interact with you. 

It’s really not that hard to do.

When I was first medically retired from the U.S. Army, I let myself go up to 256lbs.

And because of it my health, confidence, and attraction suffered.

But by simply looking for real at what I was eating and starting to do things like count my nutrient macros and lift weights, I’m back to 12% body fat, feeling great and even getting approached by women.

Be more masculine be more attractive

Masculinity is attractive to women.

They are biologically programed to be attracted to the strong traits of a masculine man.

I’ve shown you 11 of the most attractive masculine traits, but now it’s up to you to become the masculine man she wants.

Are you ready to get out of the comfort zone and improve yourself, or are you going to miss out on the opportunities that life has to offer?