Masculinity

More specifically, I wanted to explore my own understanding of masculinity and preparing young boys to fill in the shoes of men. It is exceptionally difficult to shape young boys into men when society is constantly squeezing them into a contradictive box that consequentially creates inequality and instability within the…

“A man 's face is his autobiography. A woman 's face is her work of fiction” (Oscar Wilde). As the media expands, the more diverse feminism and masculinity has become. Over the previous years, the expansion has caused a drastic move in the “feminist world”. This expansion has been exposed through television shows, movies, commercials, newspapers, and etc. Being a young lady in this twentieth century day, watching television has opened my eyes to a new aspect of the media. The way the media is…

3. Masculinity (MAS: This refers to how many a society sticks with, and values, traditional male and female roles. High MAS scores are found in countries where men are expected to be "tough," to be the provider, and to be assertive. If women work outside the home, they tend to have separate professions from men. Low MAS scores do not reverse the gender roles. In a low MAS society, the roles are simply blurred. You see women and men working together equally across many professions. Men are…

Analysis of Macho Masculinity and the Portrayal of Accompanied Ideals in Drown Submersion into a culture determined by one’s birth elicits behavior that is taught and practiced in childhood, young adulthood, and subsequently adulthood. If there are no aversions from common behaviors practiced by peers and authority figures, impressionable children and explorative young adults continue the tradition. Specifically, Latin American men have been observed to portray heightened masculinity,…

Both Tough Guise 2 and The Mask You Live In are very informative in their discussions of masculinity. These films specifically cover socialized gender roles, and how they affect interpersonal male relationships as well as American society. Both films rely on the idea that gender is a performance and examine the ways that this performance can quickly become dangerous. Tough Guise 2 is more related to how the media depicts idealized manhood and the effects of this exposure on men. Film,…

Media, peers, and unrealistic ideas of fairy tales with happy endings lead society to hold high standards for men and their masculinity. In the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford demonstrates that Western societies often forced those roles onto males. Masculinity, being a remarkable characteristic to display, seems to be connected with his morals. Morals relate to the person’s decision-making, either with confrontation or emotions about a situation, personal beliefs will be…

Social/Cultural Construction of Masculinity Be a man. The understanding of masculinity has revealed that masculinity is not 'natural'. This crisis of masculinity exists in modern Western culture—films, talk shows, and billboards have increasingly altered the meaning of manhood by identifying a person who behaves peaceably rather than violently or dominatingly, a person who is hardly able to throw a football, is uninterested in sexual conquest, and so forth as an un-masculine person. Popular…

Masculinity in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” Being a man is a theme that Ernest Hemingway often writes about in his stories. Masculinity plays the biggest role in the short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” because Wilson and Francis Macomber have the goal to be a “bigger” man. Margot is Macomber’s wife, and she is impressed by Wilson’s manliness rather than her husband’s. Throughout the story, Margot makes it blatantly obvious as well that she does not respect her…

Courage, Cowardice, and Masculinity at War Usually when people associate war to cowardness, courage, or masculinity, they think that going to war is courageous and manly and not going to war is being a coward. Tim O’Brien explains his own thoughts on this in his collection of short stories, The Things They Carried. His thoughts on what is cowardly and what is courageous are new and worth looking into. He proposes that someone could be both courageous and cowardly depending on how you think of…

Book Review Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities. By Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 272 pp., $29.95 (paper) Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha’s Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities finds itself entering in the midst of some very busy noisy conversations regarding Masculinities. As the recently-concluded 2016 Presidential Election has revealed, what it means to be Men in the United States (if not the West/Global North)…