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People form and change based on the events that they experience within their lives. How people react to these experiences is what creates a person’s personality and individuality. The most formative experiences I have had was my involvement with JROTC. JROTC taught me how to be a leader and improved my social skills so that I could become the man I am today. My transition into the man I am today started when I entered high school.
The Creed by Ryan Coogler is a movie about a person who want to find his memories through the death of his father. His name is Donnie. The film is mostly a story of Donnie on the way become a champion of World Heavyweight by the support of Rocky; who was his father friend and rival. Ryan created a Donnie character who is a strongest boy with wonderful dream and overcome challenges. However, it relates to a speech on Tedtalk by McKelley about “Unmasking Masculinity”.
Boris Pasternak once said, “often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.” This phrase expresses that a single man can make a whole city suffer. However, even though some men can be horrific, others can represent the ideal man. In Edith Hamilton’s thrilling novel, Mythology, Theseus, the mythical king of Athens, represents the ideal male because of his kindness, intelligence, and bravery.
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, Amir grows up surrounded by a culture that hinders his identity through its conflicting nature. The outside world interferes with the way Amir thinks, preventing him from discovering different aspects of life. Amir’s growth is withheld from him through Baba’s traditional views of power.
To change the way others perceive men and women, they put on a mask. For men they wear their “masculinity mask” to
Charles Dickens explores multiple attitudes towards masculinity. The male characters depict different aspects of masculinity and these aspects contribute to the acts they commit in the novel regarding love, sacrifice, justice, and redemption. Doctor Manette, initially, is depicted as a distracted, broken man that constantly relapses into trembling memories of his incarceration. In order to distract himself from the tortures of prison, he spends his time making shoes. After he overcomes his past with the help of his loving daughter, he becomes a man of great worth.
The concept of masculinity is traits that are conventionally associated with boys and men. These may be physiologically defined in terms of physical or biological traits, but more commonly masculinity is considered to be socially constructed and restricted by the norms applied to boys and men in a given culture. (Gabriel, 7). Mary Shelley characterizes Victor, using societal and gender norms to motivate him as a victorian doctor. His motivations lay in that of conventionality, to feel good about himself as a man because of his insecurities.
One Minority Man There are many examples of social influence and group behavior in the movie Twelve Angry Men. Some of these concepts that appear often are how the ‘majority men’ use argumentative strategies to further polarize their group’s opinion, how the ‘one minority man’ was treated, and how the peripheral and central route of persuasion―especially in the case of prejudice―was used. The story is about twelve men on a jury for a murder case in 1954.
Tension is created between how he expresses his identity and the conflicting messages of masculine identity. On the one hand, Bateman checks some of the boxes; he is young, employed, wealthy, and the reader knows he is of good weight due to his obsessive exercise regime at Xclusive, and he is definitely wealthy, as illustrated through his long lists of commodities. However, Bateman does not check all of the boxes, arguably as a result of a consumerist society and his conspicuous consumption. For example, consumerist society, as previously discussed, constantly bombards society with images of being a ‘perfect mannequin, thus putting pressure onto society, inclusive of males, to project a perfect image of themselves; however, males also have the competing ideals of masculinity to keep in mind. An illustration of this occurs when Bateman receives a facial (p.115); Bateman tries to impress the therapist by ‘flexing the muscles’ in his stomach and chest in a way that appears effortless, however, she seems impervious to his expression of masculinity (p.115).
If someone asked you what it means to be a man, what would you say? Would you give an example of a person you think is manly like William Wallace? Or would give definitions like strong, courageous, loving, and adventurous? There are countless examples of what people think it means to be a man. God specifically created a man to be manly.
What constitutes “masculinity?” Sadly, the term has been defined so harshly that it is having detrimental effects on our society. The definitions of gender roles bombard us everywhere, from books, to advertisements, to movies, there is seemingly no place one can hide from these absurd standards. Canadian sociologist Aaron H. Devor points out in his article “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender,” that gender norms are learned early on in life, burdening children with these restrictions (388). This is what makes movies which clearly reject and mock gender roles, such as The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, so refreshing.
The population of the United States is a combination of people from many ethnic, racial, and religious groups from different backgrounds and countries. As a result, the American Identity revolves around a set of ideals, not a common ethnic identity. The core belief in the American Identity is that the U.S. is a place of freedom and equal opportunity for all. Everyone has the resources to reach their full potential and deserves a voice in their governing body. Due to the pre existing gender hierarchy and beliefs about society that the original settlers and explorers brought from overseas, masculinity has been the driving force in the creation and development of the American identity.
“Masculinity as Homophobia” an article by S. Kimmel, that talks about how men these days have the fear of being judged and ranked based on their manhood. There are some arguments that the Professor mentions and uses in his article that supports his argument and some experiences from other people 's perspective in life of men over the years. The author’s main argument is about how men these days are being watched and judged closely based on how they walk, talk, eat, dress, move and look like. The author explains how the world is judging men and how it tries to take that power and that pride of being a man.
Over time, the thought patterns of many individuals mould to believe only one perception of what is morally acceptable— a perception that is completely faulty. The ideology of the male body and demeanor is only one of the many societal norms constructed by the media, and it alone can result in mental health fatalities, mass violence, or the mere elimination of self-identity whilst attempting to meet the ever-changing ideals of masculinity. The continuous and stereotypical depiction of masculinity in the media has idealized invulnerability, toughness and physical strength as the sole qualities of a ‘true man’. As a result, the complexity of masculinity is flattened, and immense pressures are placed on individuals to meet requirements that are entirely faulty. According to Katz, cultures, topics, and even genders are not one-dimensional; in order to fully comprehend the meaning the entirety of something, one must look at more than its representation in the media.
Masculinity (also called boyhood, manliness or manhood) is a set of attributes, behaviors and roles generally associated with boys and men. But the culture doesn’t end at the definition, it starts from there. The first thing to come to mind when the word masculinity is heard is usually a man flexing his gigantic muscles, as the word might sound to suggest, and that right there is the current culture of masculinity because sadly, in the world we live in, not everyone has a “muscular body”. So far we know the concept of masculinity, but the culture is what is truly hampering.
