Today is the future that ours parents were dreaming for back in their old days--the freedom of speech and equality of rights between all. However, this is not even close to their “dreams” yet. Kimmel, a professor of sociology at SUNY Stony Brook who is leading American scholars on the subject about masculinity, used his book, Guyland-the Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, to depict a part of our current society. in the book, he mainly focus on the “guys”--the middle class white males at the age between 16 and 26--and what so called by him, the Guyland. According to Kimmel, within the Guyland, there are three main cultures--the culture of entitlement, the culture of silence, and the culture of protection--that happen to be the main contributors of the negative behaviors of the “guys.”
First of all, Kimmel defines the culture of entitlement as a foundation of the ideas of masculinity. This means that men were use to refer themselves to be the center of the world and at the top of everything back in the days. It also means that men usually thought they supposed to have all the power to influence everything. In Guyland, Kimmel wrote:
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According to Kimmel, the culture of protection is about making sure that there will be no solid evidences and witnesses or at least not enough evidences to support the claims of the victims if they reported it. As being address by Kimmel from the Glen Ridge Rape case, there are two ways that the culture of protection will function. First, there is a protection within the guys in guyland. Second, there is a protection provided by the community. This is like what happened in Mepham case where it involved football players of Wellington C. Mepham High School who sexually harassed three new teammates in a hazing ritual. Indeed, everyone--the students--all knew about it beside all the
First of all, Kimmel defines the culture of entitlement as a foundation of the ideas of masculinity. This means that men were use to refer themselves to be the center of the world and at the top of everything back in the days. It also means that men usually thought they supposed to have all the power to influence everything. In Guyland, Kimmel wrote:
“Many young men today have a shockingly strong sense of male …show more content…
According to Kimmel, the culture of protection is about making sure that there will be no solid evidences and witnesses or at least not enough evidences to support the claims of the victims if they reported it. As being address by Kimmel from the Glen Ridge Rape case, there are two ways that the culture of protection will function. First, there is a protection within the guys in guyland. Second, there is a protection provided by the community. This is like what happened in Mepham case where it involved football players of Wellington C. Mepham High School who sexually harassed three new teammates in a hazing ritual. Indeed, everyone--the students--all knew about it beside all the