Why Do Men View Aggression?

Many acts of male aggression can be understood as a response to male anxiety. Men experience an anxious strain as a result of continuous pressures to prove their manhood. Compared to women, men more often perceive resorting to violence as a means for a positive experience. There needs to be further studies that shed light on why men view aggression as a positive means of imposing control or achieving a goal.
Tristan Bridges (2014) explores the gender and sexual dynamics of three groups of men who have varying commitments to feminist ideals to investigate heterosexual men’s relationships with gender, sexuality, and inequality. Bridges explains an interesting phenomenon of a very “gay” straight. Heterosexual men in each group defined aspects