Gender is often confused with sex. However, sex is the biological differences between male and female while gender is socially constructed traits and positions that make a male a male and a female a female. Michael Kimmel discusses this in Human Beings – An Engendered Species and explains how gender is socially constructed. Gender is socially created through gender differences which are created through social (patterns of behavior and relationships) and cultural (ideas and values) structures. These gender differences create gender inequality (Kimmel, 333). Social structures (gender factories) such as family, school, and the workplace help to form and reinforce gender differences. Cultural structures such as the interplanetary theory of gender that men and women are from different planets and hence innately different and the reinforcement of gender differences in media help to prove that gender is a social construction.
The terms hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity …show more content…
Tough Guise 2 helps to reinforce how a male should act and be, thus showing how gender is done. It shows how men should be violent to show their “manliness” and to show their dominance in society. To show this control and dominance, media and video games often show the use of guns and violence as a way to obtain hegemonic masculinity. Because so much of the media shows that becoming a man means gaining respect and power through violence (guns) as well as sexual conquest (objectifying women into objects of sex), it’s no wonder that most of violent crimes as Tough Guise 2 tells is committed mostly by men. Gender is done for men through the use of media and video games portraying the ideal hegemonic male to be dominant, violent, as well as demeaning women which is apparent in the stats that Tough Guise 2
The terms hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity …show more content…
Tough Guise 2 helps to reinforce how a male should act and be, thus showing how gender is done. It shows how men should be violent to show their “manliness” and to show their dominance in society. To show this control and dominance, media and video games often show the use of guns and violence as a way to obtain hegemonic masculinity. Because so much of the media shows that becoming a man means gaining respect and power through violence (guns) as well as sexual conquest (objectifying women into objects of sex), it’s no wonder that most of violent crimes as Tough Guise 2 tells is committed mostly by men. Gender is done for men through the use of media and video games portraying the ideal hegemonic male to be dominant, violent, as well as demeaning women which is apparent in the stats that Tough Guise 2