The Killer Masculinity

Growing up in a city with a lot of crime and illegal activity, it is hard to stay focused on what is important. Morehouse College is one of the top-ranked institutions in the country that focuses on the issue of black masculinity. Notable alumni, including Martin Luther King Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and Spike Lee once sat in the same chairs and walked the same halls. Morehouse College strives to turn boys into men. Within four years of constant work, some transform and others cannot take the pressure. Even though not all black men abuse and/or look down on women, Black men in today's generation are constantly being stereotyped based upon past situations because not all black men are criminals and not all Caucasian men are preachers.

Many socio-historical studies on masculinity have often revealed how Machismo is embedded in the Latino culture within the United States. Machismo is defined as a strong sense of masculine pride, often exhibited by Latino men. In Latino culture in the United States, machismo is not only accepted, but always expected. In any study that investigates the Latino group, machismo is a subject that cannot be left behind.

In the world people idolize the idea of the aggressive and powerful man, but this is a dangerous icon to present to children. Taken to an extreme it can cause the cycle of toxic masculinity to begin. Toxic masculinity is a dangerous set of ideals and beliefs, it provides a dangerous mindset of violent behavior to young boys, leads to anger issues, depression, and a severe urge to compensate for perceived inadequacies by the use of violence in the teenage years, can lead to an adulthood filled with violence towards family, and others, and allows the cycle to repeat.

To read Babio without recognizing the gender politics at work in the play would disregard much of how the play itself creates meaning. So much of the play’s plot and character dynamics are related to the way gender functions in this play. One major theme of Babio is the idea of masculinity and how masculinity is defined. Through the portrayal of Babio as an effeminate character, Babio is able to define masculinity through absences in Babio’s Character. Consequently, Babio makes the additional point that lovesickness is not an intrinsic aspect of medieval masculinity, despite the fact that love sickness is often attributed to men.

During the majority of his screen time, General Ripper can be seen gnawing on a long

Few would argue against the notion that society has unrealistic and unfair expectations of women. However, little time seems to be spent talking about harmful societal expectations of men, specifically those associated with toxic masculinity. Toxic masculinity is when men feel the need to prove their masculinity by upholding traditional masculine values and behaviors in a way that is detrimental to themselves and others. These behaviors traditionally associated with men include a need to prove one’s strength over others, blocking out emotional attachments, asserting dominance over others, and denying traditionally feminine behavior, such as crying and showing emotional weakness (Hess). Michael Omi’s article “In Living Color: Race and American Culture” describes how the media has had a large role in perpetuating racial stereotypes, but all his arguments can very well be related to gender stereotype. Movies that glorifies toxic masculinity will inevitably legitimize its behaviors to the public. Therefore, media that critiques stereotypes is important to shifting audience opinions. Despite being a comedy film about a team of superheroes fighting aliens threatening the universe, the 2017 Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 tackles this subject of toxic masculinity through essentially all of its male characters. In particular, the movie’s protagonist, Peter, is the focal point of this commentary. Peter’s mother died when he was young and his father was absent his entire

Throughout history women have been looked as less than and that they should be treated differently because of their gender. The respect or lack of respect a person has for a woman shows a lot into what kind of person they are. Women have gained more power in the United States and are getting treated better but in some different places around the world women are still treated like a piece of property. Even some women in the United States are treated like a piece of property. Women are still abused just as bad or even worse today.Many places are not willing to call out the abusers especially in places like Afghanistan because there is a high probability that nothing will happen to the abuser but thankfully in the United States women are speaking out more and have more places to turn to.

Many guys are determined to increase their penis dimension. Stories exhibit that, while ninety five% of guys fall within a slim usual range, most men suppose they are too small. Society creates unusual links between the length of the manhood and a man's personality, alongside along with his sexual advantage. For some men, anxiousness across the dimension of the penis turns into an obsession, inhibiting sexual and thus penile well being.

Andrew Michael Roberts states in his essay, Masculinity, Modernity, and Homosexual Desire, “My argument is that the rhetorical and symbolic structures of Conrad’s novella constantly evoke discourses of sexual knowledge and ignorance that focus with particular intensity at that period (and since) on a crisis of heterosexual/homosexual definition.” While I agree with Roberts that Heart of Darkness does indeed hint at sexual knowledge, I disagree with the fact that Conrad (did this) strictly for the time period. On the other hand, Richard J. Ruppel states in his book, Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad: Love Between the Lines, “If heterosexual desire finds little expression in the novella, potential and actual homosexual desire finds expression in several different

How does John Woo produce remasculinisation of male hero by combine traditional Chinese value of true man and western technique of expression in The Killer? 'Doing' genre that Woo used in The Killer also accord with wu, which is one of binary features of traditional Chinese masculinity. Wu represent moral principle of Chinese hero, and one major element of wu is loyalty (Louie, 2009, p.10). In The Killer, the scene from 87'' to 92'' shows how Sydney loyal to Jeff by keep his promise to get Jeff's money back from Weng. In this scene, director used montage editing style to combine Jeff's idea of true friend and Sydney's action in order to complete Sydney's masculinity in terms of loyalty. For example, Sydney required Jeff's money after he walked

The following phrase are a string of words that no heterosexual man wants to hear, “You’re acting like a girl!” To a straight or heterosexual man those words would be a shot to his manhood. To most men and boys in western society, masculinity is what separate the men from the women and the boys from the girls. However, what is masculinity and why do most men and boys’ try so hard to guard theirs? My understanding of masculinity, and as technically defined, is having customary qualities attributed to or usually applicable to a male. My position is that society encourages hegemonic masculinity thus forming basis for males to exhibit traditional masculine qualities to fit in, most women prefer men with these traditional masculine characteristics or qualities, and men try to assert their masculinity so they are not considered feminine. In the next few paragraphs, I will to take you on a journey on why masculinity is important to the communication of gender identity from a heterosexual point of view.

Catullus 16, "A Reply to My Critics" is a poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus "that was deemed so obscene it was not published in its entirety in English until the latter part of the 20th century" (Winter). To give the poem some context, this aggressive rebuttal was addressed to two men, Furius and Aurelius, who are also referenced to as Catullus ' "critics" he is replying to. These two men tend to appear in other poetry by Catullus, where he, again, employs the use of abusive language at them. These rather intrusive retorts are based on the Roman contructs of masculinity, as Catullus exhibits the need to portray a dominating demeanor upon his critics in order to deny the claims of Aurelius and Furius, that the nature of his poetry is mollis, meaning ‘soft’ and 'tender ', which esstenially makes Catullus mollis. Because of these accusations, he himself is made effeminate by these criticsims and therefore feels the need to combat these views by aggressive attacks that fortify a perceived masculine persona. Therefore, this poem serves is an attack on these demeaning criticisms and a demonstration of social norms on skewed portrayals of masculinity within the Roman society.

Because I am especially interested in men`s violence as an element constructing masculinities, the aim of this study will be to problematize on how masculinities were represented in Polish anti-violence social campaigns. I would like to learn if the campaigns referred to any common social assumptions regarding men`s violence. As a result, my research questions are as follows:

Masculinity is diverse and it pervasive as discourse in the in the individual consciousness. Foucault (1990), in his book “The History of Sexuality” at part “Scientia Sexualis”, offered a new concept of power that is not based on a particular class domination to view sexuality. Therefore, the power that is constantly competing to gain access to the formation of the truth-Knowledge. Masculinity as a discourse, in the end, would be a basis of truth -knowledge, that is applied by action. As a knowledge, masculinity ultimately affect the sexual life of the individual, in such matter, this male masculinity of the man. The influence of discourse on sexual life depicted by the society. For example, the tribes and religion believe virginity is sacred, and responsibility to keep women virgin or on their pregnancy because having sex with them is the construction of masculinity.

Being a male in today’s society is not about living and enjoyment, it has become more of a task. Social pressures and media have made it difficult for males to live a life in which they are not being pressured to act or perform a certain way. In order to reassure themselves of their masculinity, violence has become the main method in assuring themselves and those around them that they are powerful. Not only is this violence being perpetrated against others, but self-inflicted violence also exists. The violence being used is not only physical but it is emotional abuse as well. Masculinity has forced many males to perform in ways that are detrimental to their own health as well as their loved ones. Furthermore, it has also put males in the