Representation of Different Masculinities

In today’s society, masculinity has changed throughout time. Fast forward one hundred years ago, masculinity is defined as being strong and having a good paying job. But as the world is changing so is the representation of manliness. You don’t have to show your dominance over men or women today, but you should support your family nowadays and we have all been brainwashed by the thought of masculinity from our ancestors. As men our reputation is always being valued but now it isn’t so much about our reputation but about caring for one another and especially for our families. Perspective of manhood is also a significant factor in portraying what masculinity is in the eyes of other people. Masculinity has been shown through money, appearance, and providing protection for your family members but as we shift into the modern world, masculinity is not seen as displaying the most discipline but caring for one another by taking out some of your time to help one another. Throughout the paper, I will be writing about my interviews from a broad spectrum of ages from one of my younger sisters to my dad with not friends not at Seb’s in between so I can get what it really means to be a man from all ages.

This chapter first establishes the discursive approach to gender as the foundation for conceptualizing masculinities. Next, it introduces some recent conceptualizations of masculinities and the types of masculinities propagated within the Singapore context. Following that, it explores how advertisements produce and transfer meaning before looking at some of the masculinities present in the advertisements within men’s lifestyle magazines.

“When I 'm talking to groups that are all men”, said Gloria Steinem, writer and political activist, “we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity” (Steinem). This particular idea of masculinity is a much more modern interpretation that has changed drastically over the centuries. Masculinity used to be defined as a male who was a man’s man that exemplified President Theodore Roosevelt’s idea of pulling one’s self up by the bootstraps. Over the years, especially in literature, the evolution of masculinity can be directly traced through careful and considerate evaluation and analysis. As we explore the evolution of masculinity, the key elements to fully understand include what exactly it means to be a man, how this concept has changed over time, and what it means to be a man in today’s society.

This review provides an explanation from teen fathers while measuring masculinity differences. This material covers topics that impact teen fathers’ interactions, beliefs, traditional societal ideologies, and judgment. This analysis reflects qualitative data that describes stigma and the involvement of society regarding teen pregnancy.

Refer to Bly’s consideration of masculinity, Thomas was a man lack of the wild energy. At the first place, he had no older man to iminate from, and his only parent, his mother, was a cold guardian who had done few things to help him grow and discover his masculinity. He might have done the bucket work and find the Wild Man in the deep down of his psyche, but he could find the key from his mother and he did not steal the key to unlock Iron John, so he could not get the golden ball back. He tried to ask people to give the ball back to him rather than seeking by himself. Without the process of getting wounded by finding the key, he did not turn into a wild man from a savage man. Unfortunately, he was still a savage man who tried to use kidnapping

Throughout the world, countries and cultures are struggling with the idea of queer. The problem is that the United States and many countries live with the concept of patriarchy. Patriarchy is a social constructed structure to organize people to live in a gender binary society. The gender binary is the constructed gender roles that men and women are expected to do in which it affects the everyday lives of queers and it doesn’t allow them to freely express who they truly are. Historically, white heterosexual males and heterosexual families are the ideal model and are those in higher power.

"The female genome is hardwired for bitching. It's the way they have gotten what they wanted since the dawn of humankind. They cannot stop."

The concept of masculinity and attempts at its definition in the previous decades has been continuously re-evaluated and critique by many (Connell, 1995; Kimmel, 1987; Morgan, 1992). However, the challenges to masculinity have come from a number of different social and economic forces including rationalisation o f the work force, the women’s movement and women’s entry to the work sphere and also unemployment. Arising from these challenges came a certain crisis of masculinity where traditional and previously unproblematic notions o f masculinity were now being seen as problematic(Page,

Scholars of Masculinity Studies analyse the emotional lives of men using various theories to show how masculinities are socially constructed and how men are expected even compelled, to behave in specific situations. Social conditioning, which encourages women to adopt certain codes of conduct, also compels men to behave in certain ways, such as, being the breadwinners of the family or accepting the taboo against emotional expressions of sorrow, love or tenderness. Male experiences of these taboos are not uniform but diverse and can produce different outcomes. The male characters as extensions of the broader social, political and cultural concerns of their particular context become sites for complex constructions of masculine identity especially

The female figure was literally considered an object and the male figure as the subject. Mulvey states that cinema has the ability of making the viewer visualize women as an erotic symbol that can have a lot of influence over men, but only for that and

Culture is an important phenomenon that surrounds every area of this world. It can be difficult to understand different behaviors and why individuals have distinctive preferences. Analyzing the different cultures, is a beneficial strategy as organizational success is strongly related with diversity in the workplace. It was interesting to read your post as you offered important information about these nations. One of the areas that excel, was the different levels of masculinity. As you mentioned, Mexico and Italy scored higher in masculinity due to the active roles of males in the workplace. “In these cultures males dominate significant portion of the society and power structures,

Masculinity deals with the value of gender differences in society, or the distribution of the emotional role between different genes. The values of masculine dimension (masculinity) contained the value of competitiveness, assertiveness, materialistic, ambition and power. The feminine dimension (femininity) places more value on the relationship and quality of life. In the masculine dimension, the distinction between gender roles appears to be more dramatic and less flexible than the feminine dimensions that see men and women share the same value, emphasizing simplicity and concern.

Variations of femininity and masculinity move along a continuum, in contrast to each other [more of one inherently means less of the other].

To lead a community into uncertainty in earlier times was based on whether you were able to physically protect the people within. The position of a leader one thousand years ago could only determined by physical strength. Since men are biologically structured to be stronger, this resulted in men being the first leaders of society. This culture of a male-dominated society based on the archaic view of physicality is composed of more flaws than fairness towards today’s larger component of society, women.

In the past Britain used to be a patriarchal society, however, now it is hypothetically equal. The gender-role identity is the extent of masculine or feminine self-appreciation of an individual (McNeill & Petersen, 1985, cited in Fromme & Eccles, 1996). Masculinity and femininity described by Deaux (1984) as personal characteristics, activities, behaviours, dispositions, appearances which are acceptable for males or females and established by sociocultural factors, while sex refers only to the physiological dissimilarities. Per biological supposition, gender is fully defined by biology, particularly, by the physiology (work of the nervous system) and inheritance (genetic factor) (McLeod, 2014). On contrast, psychodynamic paradigm primarily focused on conscious and unconscious stimuli within the individual and psychosexual development with an emphasis on early childhood experiences, like the main factor of gender formation (Brannon, 2016). In this essay, biological psychological approach to the formation of an individual’s gender role identity compared with the psychodynamic approach.