Recently, “masculinity” has become a topic of discussion. Admittedly, masculine and feminine have their own beauty, which is worth affirming, and there is no need to erase the difference between the two.
Later, the Ministry of Education also issued a reply on its official website, saying that it will pay attention to the cultivation of students’ “masculinity”, from strengthening the staffing of physical education teachers, strengthening the top-level design of the school physical education system, and carrying out in-depth health education.
Many ideological, moral and personality qualities do not have gender affiliation. For example, courage, kindness, patience, harmony and love should be available to men and women.
However, in the family, misconceptions of the roles of men and women can cause various marital tragedies. For example, a woman thinks that it is a man’s business to support the family. A man must earn money to support her and not bear the responsibility himself, which will cause family conflicts. Masculinity itself is also a cultural construction.
For example, in China, it is taken for granted that men carry bags to women when shopping, and few women in the United States are willing to let you do so. However, “gentleman manners” require men to open doors for women. Friends, I have worked a lot to maintain this gentlemanly manner. Several times, I opened the door to the old lady. The old lady was embarrassed and walked quickly and almost fell.
In the United States, masculinity seems to always be associated with fishing, hunting, and holding guns. The people in the Duck Dynasty who wear camouflage clothes, bearded and hunt and fish are very masculine. However, in the eyes of some “gly” and pro-LGBTQ elites, they are just a group of uneducated rednecks. Gender bias tends to push men to the extremes of so-called “toxic masculinity”.
What is toxic masculinity?” The Good Men Project is defined as: “Toxic masculinity is a narrow and oppressive description of masculinity, which refers to masculinity defined by violence, gender, status and aggression. This is the cultural ideal of masculinity. Power is everything and emotion is weakness.
Here, gender and cruelty are the criteria for men, and so-called ‘female’ characteristics — from emotional vulnerability to non-indulging sexual desire — can be deprived of male identity.”
This toxic masculinity is exposed in the culture of campus rape, gun culture and violence. The more people have nothing in terms of knowledge, skills and ability, the more they emphasize their “masculinity” characteristics.
There are also men who have made extraordinary efforts to combat these toxic masculinity trends. For example, in order to make men cool in housework, there are phenomena in society where men engage in knitting, sewing, making quilts and so on.
There is also an extreme ironing “sports”. You can see that men on the top of the mountain, in the air and on the water, wearing parachutes, pedals, hanging Weia and riding motorcycles to iron them.
However, all of these are alternative, and the existence of toxic masculinity is still common.
In the fight against the epidemic in 2020, toxic masculinity made countless Americans positive for the novel coronavirus. Until Biden came to power on January 20, 2021, masks in the United States were mainly persuasive, not legal requirements.
“Toxic masculinity” makes many people feel that wearing masks is a sign of timidity and fear of death. Trump insisted on not wearing masks until the end of his term.
After recovering from the epidemic, he immediately went to the balcony of the White House to speak. One unforgettable move was that he suddenly pulled off his mask.
Alisha Haridasani Gupta, the author of The New York Times, pointed out that the purpose of this move was to show that he went to fight a ruthless enemy, but survived unharmed and was as strong as ever. Trump has failed greatly in the fight against the epidemic. In addition to the weak policy measures, this toxic masculinity has also had many bad effects on other men.
According to a Gallup survey, there has been a difference in the proportion of men and women in the United States wearing masks. In early June 2020, the proportion of men and women wearing masks outside their homes was 78 percent and 87 percent, respectively. As advocacy increased, the gap gradually narrowed, by September, 89% and 93% respectively.
Wearing masks was regarded as a cowardly non-male behavior, and later this culture was slowly reversed by many people. These pure men in the middle of the year are not afraid of death. They won’t die either.
They can carry it. However, after they were positive, their families, including their old parents and grandparents, may have died.
Poisonous masculinity poisoned his family. If masks were initially advertised as a responsible behavior for men to take care of the elderly, the weak and women and children, the United States might have killed fewer people.
It is very interesting that in this epidemic, many countries led by women have achieved good results, including New Zealand, Germany, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, etc.
Wearing masks was regarded as a cowardly non-male behavior, and later this culture was slowly reversed by many people. These pure men in the middle of the year are not afraid of death. They won’t die either.
They can carry it. However, after they were positive, their families, including their old parents and grandparents, may have died. Poisonous masculinity poisoned his family.
If masks were initially advertised as a responsible behavior for men to take care of the elderly, the weak and women and children, the United States might have killed fewer people.
It is very interesting that in this epidemic, many countries led by women have achieved good results, including New Zealand, Germany, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, etc.
