Masculinity In Tough Guise II

What is being done to release the tight hold masculinity has on “being a man”? Boyle raises an important question in her article about the movie Goon, she states, “it is puzzling of why so few people problematized the depiction of enforcing violence and masculinity” (2014). This statement

Men’s Real Emotions Gender is a large part of everyone ’s identify that is often defined by psychological differences between people and people like men and women. therefore, those differences are reflected in many gender stereotypes, for example, boys often like blue color and are very strong, and men rarely share their feelings, while girls usually like pink color and are very weak, and women are more emotional. From the earliest age, the boys are told “Be a man,” “Don’t cry,” or “Man up.”

TFA Essay Our lives are centered around our culture and beliefs, we are influenced by our peers about our beliefs to the point where it may cause things to fall apart, with many up and down situations. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, we learn about an Ibo culture that believe in male masculinity and dominance, expected from a very young age for boys to be very masculine and rule over women.

To begin, masculinity is a central trait through which men try to compensate for their race and class subordination. Men use masculinity in an attempt to acquire social status and avoid being subordinated. However, among delinquent boys, masculinity is formed through negative encounters with probation officer, the police, juvenile hall, and school discipline. On the other hand, masculinities are also shaped positively by authority figures in the appropriate circumstances. Manhood is also accomplished through the subordination of women and through culture.

As an extension of that masculinity affects career paths. It makes certain career paths for men acceptable and other career options not necessarily acceptable. For instance you will not see many first grade male teachers as it is considered a relatively easier job not worth a man’s time and skill. Masculinity also impacts men and boys in terms of how we deal with our relationships, whether they are our friendships, or even our romantic relationships. Clearly there are certain expectations for men and boys grounded in masculine expectations that sort of dictate how we are supposed to act.

We teach boys to man up, and we teach them not to show emotions. (CITE) As (NAME) said, we feminize things like relationships, emotions, and expressing oneself. Then we devalue the things we feminize. This not only sends an extremely negative message to boys being told to "man up", but we also allow for a hierarchy between genders to grow.

Inaccurate generalizations in society latch onto minds, possibly without recognition, forming a mold for what encompasses masculinity. As a consequence, males from their earliest days are taught how to act and speak varying very much from females. From a young age boys are taught to be physically strong and that they must win athletically. The world stands excessively divided in terms of toys, food, clothes, toiletries and activities. Shakespeare represents the same idea though Othello in the 1600s with the positions of power politically solely being held by men.

He argues that men are afraid of being seen as not manly enough. Men are always in competition against each other, and take risks only to assert their masculinity over others. Kimmel has said that men prove one another by wealth, power, and looks. It is also known that woman are known as a supporter of every man.

The male roles in the family seem to be above females’ because they get to make decisions for girls. Men feel dominant to women, so the same behaviors as the women are acceptable for them. Along with these, the ladies are not expected to crave love and affection like the gentlemen do. The gender issue of men being dominant and women being submissive used in the drama, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, shows the differences in the roles, behaviors, and expectations appropriate for each gender and is an example of an outdated stereotype. Unlike the time frame of this literature, women in the present are valued equal to men.

These traits are many times then accompanied by phrases such as man up, dont cry, or suck it up. We are introduced to these standards of masculinity from a very young age, continuing to see them all throughout your life. This leaves boy oftimes feeling like they are not living up to these “standards” that society requires of them. A lot of times men are hiding their feelings, not showing or telling anyone what is really going on. In the movie The Mask You Live In, Educator Ashanti Branch, talks about the mask a lot of boys hide behind.

Throughout history, we tend to correlate toughness and aggression with men, but maybe it doesn 't always have to be like that? Maybe it doesn 't have to be a norm anymore to be aggressive. Another article titled Boy 's Emotional Needs by Sarah Glazer was published on June 18th, 1998. This article was published shortly after the tragedy most of us know to be the Columbine shootings. She related the issues we see in men nowadays to the issues the two men who shot their classmates were suffering with.

The term white privilege has become a bad term, just like the word feminism. Society has found a way to distort and change the definition of terms like these to avoid the actual issue that the term is bringing up. By definition feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities, but the word has come to carry a negative connotation (Webster). Many who believe in the principle would not call themselves feminists or participate in trying to reach equality to avoid that connotation placed on them. Their silence only aids the continuation of inequality between men and women.

According to the article released by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), males accounted for 74.59 percent of the over 12 million arrests in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation,2014). This disparities in crimes committed by the two genders is a trend that is seen worldwide. Although it was that female crime rates would come close to male crime rate as the two genders took similar responsibilities in society. Research shows that the social status of male and female criminal is basically the same, which means that there must be something that results in the disparity. Studies have linked masculinity to criminal behavior in males.

Dress Code Con Dress codes are a small part of an entirely bigger issue, rape culture. This means “a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse.” (google 1) When you tell a girl her outfit is a distraction , you're telling her that a “distraction free” learning environment is more important than her education. Dress codes are distracting and unnecessary. “This philosophy of blaming women’s attire for men’s behavior toward them is unethical.”

The author of this article is Robert Jensen. He is a journalist professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Jensen’s writing and teaching focus on interrogating power structures of race and gender. He also wrote and published The End of Masculinity; therefore this is a topic that he feels really strongly about. Jensen first published the article “The High Cost of Manliness” to argue for an end to the conception of manliness.