The Negative Opinion Of Masculinity

In this world, everyone is different and unique, so each person has their own opinion and way of thinking. Therefore, it makes masculinity a very controversy subject to talk about. This subject is so big and has many ways to look at it, so it is difficult to say which opinion is right or which opinion is wrong. Everyone has their own way to think of it, so of course they will have their own supporting story or details to support their argument. Opinions of masculinity are different in everyone and the concepts masculinity is changing over time. In some people’s opinions, masculinity is bad. A professor of communications studies at the University of Michigan name Susan Douglas had written an article to argue against masculinity. According to

Unlike the negative opinions about masculinity said that it is dangerous, violence and a threat to women, positive opinions people wanting to restore masculinity. “A professor of political science and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada” (Newell) had written an article discuss about positive things of masculinity. According to Newell that “young men need to learn a positive version of masculinity that encourages honor, pride, and respect for women.” With him, masculinity is a positive thing for men, it is honorable and respectful, therefore young men should learn it. Sadly, throughout the years, masculinity has changes a lot which made people misunderstood the actual definition of it and mislead it to violence and misogyny (Newell). Even though everyone has their own personalities, but babies are born, raise and teach by their surroundings. Due to that reason, “Newell contends that society needs to channel certain boyish traits, such as a desire to be heroic, in positive directions and teach these boys how to become honorable men.” Babies are like a clean slate, what they see is what they are going to learn, they should see and learn masculinity in positive ways of it, not the bad ways of it. To learn masculinity in positive ways, Newell states, “to do this, we must recover a sense of what it means to be manly—honorable,

Since the society is more accepting these days, “straight men are liberating themselves from homophobia, leaving themselves open to gay influence, and thus to a more expansive idea of what it means to be a man” (Nutter). Homosexual men taking masculinity concept to the next level where they actually do more things that extremely against the definition of masculinity. Instead of being just open up and express the feelings of themselves, they do things like women does. For example, the article written by Nutter had stated that “much more than a matter of heterosexual men simply working out, waxing, and wearing Prada.” The moment when homosexual was introduced, it was not welcome by the society, because men are expected to be highly strict, manly and masculine. The movement when the homophobia men tried to express and liberate themselves, according to Nutter “homosexuals were regularly thrown in jail, fired, kicked out of their homes, and given shock treatments as "cures,".” This changing concept of masculinity is effecting men a lot, because religious men are denied from churches. Young men were taught to look down at homosexuality and separate themselves from it to protect their sense of secure masculinity. Ayers later learned that homosexuality people still look for love and compassion just like everyone else (Ayers). Even though the concept of masculinity had changed enormous, from