How important do you think sports and muscles really are to masculinity?
I don't think that muscles and sports really define masculinity at all. When I think of masuclinity I think of someone who is a good role model. A male who is proud of himself and confident. Some men may feel more confident if they have muscles. That's how they feel but as a woman I don't think a male whose skinny is NOT masucline. I know men who are very masculine that have no muscles. However when we were asked in class about what maculinity meant to us, muscles and sports did pop in my head. Maybe this had to do with sterotyping males to automatically have muscles and be into sports to be masculine. But I do disagree with my "fast" thinking. I don't think that sports really have anything to do with how masucline a male is. That's something that some people just aren't into. Maybe a guy is more into hunting or hiking, that doesn't make him less masculine that the males watching sports. The chart that was shown in class on how many people did think that being masculine meant they had to have muscles and be into sports. I'm wondering if this was because we only got a minute to write down our thoughts, or if people really did feel that these things were essential to being masculine.
I totally agree...the definition of masculinity in our country is overrated, but yet I still find myself believing the sterotypes! By the way I didn't know you were in this class! haha
ReplyDeleteIf people had more than a minute to write down their answers, how would that change their number one answer? Do you imagine people would write it down and then cross it out? That sort of self-censoring doesn't really give a very accurate response.
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