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To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us. All Rights Reserved. OSO version 0. University Press Scholarship Online. Sign in. Not registered? Sign up. What aspects shape your definition? Another key definition is that of manhood, defined by Google as:. How does this relate to masculinity? Do you feel that the two are linked? Why or why not? How do you feel about these definitions?
How do you define manhood? What shapes your ideas around manhood? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. We insist on male dominance, that the physically stronger gender is the superior one—an idea rooted in times of spear-throwing and sword-fighting rather than present day, where machines do most of the building, hunting and fighting for us. But even in a time where physical strength was necessary aspect of survival, the genders were co-dependent.
Men need women and women need men equally. Too often we allow presentation of strength to overstep strength itself, which can and should be defined beyond the physical.
This is a problem with serious cultural repercussions. Toxic masculinity in American culture starts with straight, white men and trickles down through marginalized groups, affecting the way they perceive themselves and behave.
The hypermasculine aggression and misogynoir in hip-hop comes of a need to claim manhood by claiming ownership of things. Women, money, real estate and social status are precious commodities as they represent power—that thing that slavery never allowed black men to have. This is where toxic masculinity intersects and affects black male stigmas, where white America would rather ignore historical influence on black culture than accept that straight black men are not inherently more aggressive, misogynistic and homophobic than their white counterparts.
Power in an authoritarian sense is not a virtue, but strength is. Stifling emotion, for one, is unnecessary and strange, as emotions are biological entities, not fabricated ones. If a man feels an emotion, he feels it, and his body reacts. What any gender conversation comes down to is which qualities come of biology and which are socially constructed.
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