What is the nature of Man in Hinduism?

Question

The nature of women is described within the Manusmriti as the following:

Manu assigned to women sleep, sitting, ornament, lust, anger, dishonesty, malice and bad conduct.

So then what's man's nature? As I have yet to find anything regarding such.

Answer 1

On the contrary, the following are from Manu Smriti.

3.55 Women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law, who desire (their own) welfare

3.56. Where women are honoured, there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honoured, no sacred rite yields rewards.

8.28. In like manner care must be taken of barren women, of those who have no sons, of those whose family is extinct, of wives and widows faithful to their lords, and of women afflicted with diseases.

8.29. A righteous king must punish like thieves those relatives who appropriate the property of such females during their lifetime.

8.349. In their own defence, in a strife for the fees of officiating priests, and in order to protect women and Brahmanas; he who (under such circumstances) kills in the cause of right, commits no sin.

9.232. Forgers of royal edicts, those who corrupt his ministers, those who slay women, infants, or Brahmanas, and those who serve his enemies, the king shall put to death.

This is not to defend some of the statements of Manu Smriti but to say that the version we have may be highly modified/misunderstood. Indian society didn't run by Manu Smriti literally until the British/Westerners revived it. Who is to authenticate the correct version of the manuscripts those days ?

Answer 2

I am not sure if the passage below is the appropriate answer to your question. It is an assessment of non-spiritual men and women in general.

Man develops hankering and attachment for sense objects when he falsely begins to think that they will promote his good. Such attachment matures into craving, and it is from these intense desires that conflicts erupt among men. From conflicts arise uncontrollable anger. This is followed by delusion - complete inability to distinguish right and wrong, the proper and the improper. Delusion quickly swallows his moral sense completely. O good friend! Man then becomes a zero as far as his humanity is concerned. He is as good as dead. He loses all the great values obtainable through human life. He merely exists absorbing food like a tree, and breathing like a pair of bellows. Due to his excitement with sensuous enjoyments, he knows not anything about his real nature, nor does he have any love and sympathy for others.

Srimad Bhagavata Purana XI.21.19–22