How Does Dominance Influence Male Dominance

Interpreting the Innate Thoughts of Dominance, Femininity and Masculinity When the word dominant is said it brings up images of successful men and it invokes thoughts of being in control. Why do we almost exclusively think of men when it comes to dominance? Men, historically have been the movers and shakers of society. They where the hunters, the village leaders, and now they are presidents and company commanders, although there are women in control it continues to be heavily male dominated. We as a society see men as stronger and as more capable than women and we see women as men’s lesser half. We expect men to be tough and stoic, taking control with a heavy hand and a clear head. Just as we expect women to be dainty, soft. Almost like a delicate flower, something that needs to be tended to and helped out as often as possible. Often portrayed as emotional and catty women aren’t taken as seriously as men and they’re sometimes overlooked next to fellow men. Changing our identity to fit these, we are controlled by gender roles. This type of mindset installs an …show more content…
We have grown up seeing these gender-roles of dominant men and weak women. The concepts and ideas are seen everywhere, from movies that feature a damsel in distress needing to be saved by her prince to ones with men being the incompetent stay at home father who need the a woman to help him. We are force-fed this point of view that men are bread-winners and women are homemakers, as well as being told that it’s almost taboo to venture too far away from these predisposed gender roles. Due to this, men who aren’t powerful are automatically weak and women who are powerful aren’t feminine. This makes it hard to escape these roles. Now of course this is taking gender roles to an almost extreme level but this is often the views of people. These views very much so hurt society and the balance between the