Do you think there is a man who isn't concerned about his masculinity? — unenlightened
There is much to recommend this. Except that it applies to every male from the age they become aware of their sex and learn to insist on a blue toothbrush not a pink one. Some of us are quite happy to say that gender roles and identities arealways toxic from the beginning, along with racial, and other socially imposed identities.
Thus I am a man, and therefore whatever I am is part of maleness and whatever I do is part of maleness, and there is nothing to conform to and nothing to perform. On this view, there is no achievement, no winning of the woman, or finding a place in the dominance hierarchy - I haven't had a fight for 58 years, but ain't I a man? A gay man is a complete man and a straight man is also a complete man, and a transvestite is a complete man. A celibate monk and a gigolo are both complete men.
But masculinity confines, restricts, imposes, on all men a single image to which one must conform or face penalties - sometimes the death penalty.
But one must remember the source of this language is the political talk of women. And in practice, the emphasis will be exactly what is being presented by some here as the essence of masculinity - domination, aggression and violence, domestic abuse, and at the extreme, rape. — unenlightened
Do you think there is a man who isn't concerned about his masculinity? — unenlightened
I'm trying to fidure out of masculinity and authority are synonymous in a nuclear family. — Edy
Teaching a child that some authority simply cannot be questioned is perhaps a dangerous thing. — Possibility
This is why it's portant to have a flexible authority, like a Queen. One who is willing to reason in any given situation. Ie you can question the law and seek to change it. — Edy
The importance of understanding that there is an ultimate authority is very necessary, and I believe its dangerous to teach them otherwise. Ie if you break the law, you will be punished. — Edy
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