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As a cishet man, I don't. I recognize it, I know my social expectations, I know what the unwritten "rules" are and I am just "comfortable" with it. In that it doesn't bother me enough that I want to change anything.
That doesn't mean I "feel like a man." I don't know if there's such a feeling. It's words we use to describe having comfort with your life and situation, and I bet there are very few men or women or anyone else who feel that sensation all the time. Even though I feel comfortable being a man, there are so, so many things I don't understand, but cannot change.
I would say the way I feel my gender the most is physically and sexually. Without delving too deep into the horny-pool, all I can say is I feel like a man in sexuality. I feel very "male" urges tickling the back of my mind which are very pleasant to indulge in the right circumstances. I have attractions and desires that line up with being heterosexual male and that's probably the only place where I enjoy maleness.
Everything else? It just feels like wallpaper, and I don't care. I wear a beard because I know there are people who like beards and have decided I look better displaying facial hair, but I don't stroke it and say "damn, that's nice man-hair." I would feel better smooth shaved but it makes me look like gumby.
I am the first downstairs with a gun when someone hears glass breaking, not because I like being first in line for danger, but because I know I am larger and well-trained and can probably survive an injury better than smaller humans around me that I care about.
I am the one who does the "guy things" because I am the guy. When I (rarely) get support or reward for specifically male things, it feels good but I don't connect it with my gender. I don't even know what that means. I feel more like I happen to be in this body in this culture and need to do the best I can with it, and feel no strong urge to change that dynamic. No glaring discomfort, but also no real sense of "identity" about my gender.
Honestly, maybe it's because I keep the company of people with a few more brain-cells than the stereotypes you see in media, but my male friends are usually the same. We don't "talk like guys" together, if anyone tried that they would get stared at. Most of our conversations are about healthcare and problems with our homes or backs or family members, real-world, material issues with life more than our gender roles. Most men I know are just "people inhabiting male bodies and roles" and I don't think that's rare, I think it's largely what most people feel.
There are things I recognize that are deeply painful about my gender role, as well as things that give me benefits. If I let myself feel anything at all, it would be a level of despair that no matter what else happens, there is an expectation on me that I will have to work, solve problems and do the hard things in my family/social circle that people who do not identify or "feel" like men don't have to do. I don't get that part on a broad, social level. But lingering on what's fair or not, no matter what the situation, is useless. It's rumination. It's the thief of life and joy. You will never be free of injustice or unfairness. That's not how our world works.
As a nonbinary person who still feels a bit unsure, THANK YOU for this long, well written answer. I'd give you gold points but idk if that's a thing on lemmy.
I'm AFAB but I very often wish I could be included in the mens group, you know? I don't really feel a desire to be part of a womens group tho. In many aspects I don't really relate to many of those expectations like dressing up, makeup etc.