What is the Role and Meaning of Marriage for Men in Contemporary Australia? Children grow up being lead to believe that there is a perfect partner somewhere out there for each person and if they were able to find this such person, then they would marry them and live together happily, forever after. Well, at least they used to be. This, especially now, is essentially a fallacy on the whole. In this essay, it will be shown how much more ominous the prospects of marriage particularly for men in current day Australia are by comparison to previous decades. There are precious few inducements to tempt a male into entering the realm of matrimony and detailed here are some of the reasons for this fact. Much has changed with the modernism of the world
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This was traditionally the supported standard for many millennia and for many generations. Man’s primitive instincts are still there underlying the surface and will arise in certain instances. “Men are products of society 's assumptions about what it means to "be a man."” Hewitt (2004, p. 83). Present day attitudes and gender roles have changed dramatically, which in tow, dictates that man’s role has had to adapt to follow suit. (Schoenfeld, Bredow & Huston 2012, pp. 1396-1409) However, it has been a gradual change in recent decades coinciding and aligning with the changes in other gender roles. With more women in successful careers and financially independent, there has been a swing towards a more dominant female. Also in many situations the male of the relationship earns much less money than the female, so feels slightly inadequate and dominated. This leading to the male adopting a marginally more effeminate nature, which adapts him into a more loving, affectionate (but less masculine) individual. This is viewed as a positive trend in contemporary life but it can also be a challenging situation for the more traditional cogitating male. This is where …show more content…
Tough larrikin types who worked hard, lived hard and drank hard. Always putting their mates and their families first, but also believing in giving anyone and everyone a ‘fair go’. Always being dedicated and adept providers for their families and would protect them with their life if necessary. The legend of the Aussie digger and the nonconformist joker is an imperative chunk of the Australian history of farming, during the gold rush, bushrangers, the shearers and the drovers. Harris (1847) wrote “working together in the otherwise solitary bush; habits of mutual helpfulness arise, and these elicit gratitude, and that leads on to regard. Men under these circumstances often stand by one another through thick and thin; in fact, it is a universal feeling that a man ought to be able to trust his own mate in anything”. This man no longer exists, or at least if any still in fact do, then they are in hiding under the guise of
This was traditionally the supported standard for many millennia and for many generations. Man’s primitive instincts are still there underlying the surface and will arise in certain instances. “Men are products of society 's assumptions about what it means to "be a man."” Hewitt (2004, p. 83). Present day attitudes and gender roles have changed dramatically, which in tow, dictates that man’s role has had to adapt to follow suit. (Schoenfeld, Bredow & Huston 2012, pp. 1396-1409) However, it has been a gradual change in recent decades coinciding and aligning with the changes in other gender roles. With more women in successful careers and financially independent, there has been a swing towards a more dominant female. Also in many situations the male of the relationship earns much less money than the female, so feels slightly inadequate and dominated. This leading to the male adopting a marginally more effeminate nature, which adapts him into a more loving, affectionate (but less masculine) individual. This is viewed as a positive trend in contemporary life but it can also be a challenging situation for the more traditional cogitating male. This is where …show more content…
Tough larrikin types who worked hard, lived hard and drank hard. Always putting their mates and their families first, but also believing in giving anyone and everyone a ‘fair go’. Always being dedicated and adept providers for their families and would protect them with their life if necessary. The legend of the Aussie digger and the nonconformist joker is an imperative chunk of the Australian history of farming, during the gold rush, bushrangers, the shearers and the drovers. Harris (1847) wrote “working together in the otherwise solitary bush; habits of mutual helpfulness arise, and these elicit gratitude, and that leads on to regard. Men under these circumstances often stand by one another through thick and thin; in fact, it is a universal feeling that a man ought to be able to trust his own mate in anything”. This man no longer exists, or at least if any still in fact do, then they are in hiding under the guise of