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wow we actually agree on something nqa.
How is this masculinity? Surely taking responsibility for one's own life and not blaming others or society is down to both men and women?
And the 'risk' to men also comes from other men: maybe particularly other men.
So I would suggest is being 'Protestant' which was on the original list.
Or I could be more brutal and say masculinity is about having a spine and not boohooing about how the evil women have it all...
I think this is the reason why men aren't nearly as passionate as we women are about our respective portrayals in the media. The idiot good-for-nothing bloke on TV is just that: a good-for-nothing bloke, not a represantative of his gender (as we would feel if it was a woman instead being portrayd in an idiotic role).
For proof of this, you only have to look as far as Flashman's Ghost's post
The thing is, do men really consider their portrayals in the media as 'a problem' (which they are not expressing)?
But I think media representations of men and women are totally skewed, particularly in the fashion industry. Which is why I think things like Dove's campaign for real beauty is something to be applauded.
On the whole buffon stereotype, I don't think it's a huge problem tbh (nor is negative stereotyping of men older than about mid-20's in general really) because for every "let's wait for dad to put his brain in" advert, there's another advert where a man is getting one over on his other half by tricking her into thinking he's worked really hard doing the housework (such as the Flash advert, or that rice advert with the old couple). In fact, I'd be more worried about the fact that the woman is frequently seen as sensible, only in comparison to the buffon character, whereas the man is usually seen as crafty and intuitive on his own merits.
Seriously though...I get the feeling from a lot of posters here that humans are blank canvases from once they're born. That gender attidued and roles are sculptered from the society/culture they're brought up in. Ballix mucker.
Where else do you get attitudes, gender roles, etc from except from those arounds you? i.e. society. Human's don't develop these without any input from society. Gender etc is like language. Humans don't develop language without people to speak to. They don't develop concretised gender expectations, attitudes, stereotypes, belief systems, gender roles, and so on, without exposure to society.
Culture is learned.
I'm not talking about culture you eejit.
I'm hungover lol. I'll do it some other time haha! :thumb:
Aye, could've went either way, in both matches. Ah well, looks like the wooden spoon for you lot.