The documentary which we watched at class,is really realistic but I think some points are missed about masculinity. At the being of the documentary some boys describe masculinity as dominance,violence,power,freedom and being respected.If boys are not keep back none of them these features, they can called as sissy, soft..etc. All of the features which I told above make boys "real man".How boys think these properties make them real man? First factor is "Media" because there are lots of films,cartoons,TV series,songs..etc which we can see the male dominance.For example,In Turkey there was a show which is called Güzel ve Dahi.In this show there are girls who are just beautiful and there were boys who are smart.The narrator of this programme ask questions the girls and lots of them answer these questions wrongly.Thus far everything looks normal but deeply there is a man dominance because girls just shown as beautiful but stupid ones.Also all of them wore sexy and low-cut dresses.I think these girls are used as sex objects to increase rating level.On the other hand,men answer every questions and they kidding with girls when girl gave silly answers.Actually this programme gives a message to public like "Women are silly and they are like knickknacks which belongs to man and man can use it whatever they want but Men are intelligent and they can success and obtain everything if they want." The other factor is culture.For example,in our culture there is a stereotyped view about men which is men never cry.Because of this view, men feel that they have to be strong.
Wow, I've never seen that programme before (thankfully!) How utterly stereotyped!
ReplyDeleteI was interested in your final comment...men may be told not to cry, but whenever I turn on Turkish TV, I see a man crying...often a "Baba" character...
Finally, can you cite your photos and turn the citation into a link as well? That picture on the left is very scary...she is clearly very ill and needs treatment, yet it's being portrayed here as "beauty". People need to speak out against these types of photos.