Importance Of Social Media And Masculinity

Masculinity is so Fragile

Over the past couple of decades, we are all aware that social media has had a great impact on us and the way we think. Social media has revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on a daily basis. It has been spreading propaganda on how we should live our lives, how to act, what’s right and wrong, what’s good for us and many more. It is double edge sword that hinders people’s abilities to think for their self, but has open such a vast world to share one another 's opinions in a matter of seconds on the internet or television. “Be a man! You must be swift as the coursing river! Be a Man! With all the force of a great typhoon! Be a man! With all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side

Still to this day men are still afraid their feminine side or do anything that is considered gay. The one thing men are scared the most is showing affection between two males. A majority of males have readily accepted that there 's nothing wrong with showing a feminine side to males, But a few have not. For example with “Twitter”, they has replaced the favourite button that was a star to show that you like it, to a heart. A group of males have gone far to explain why they will not use the button anymore due to it making them look like a “faggot”(See Figure 2). Men want to retain their masculinity to show that they are the alpha male and have no intention of showing their feminine side, because being feminine is considered

Both parents agreed having any feminine traits would automatically considered me not a man. That includes long hair, non-muscular figure,high voice, showing affection towards men, body jewellery, dressing more femininely and many more. I the youngest in my family and only the male child, have gone against my parent’s beliefs of an “ideal figure” of a man. I grew out my hair, pierced my ears, dress more femininely by the way my dad dresses and care way more about my looks. My parent’s have not grown to custom of the new generations vision of a ideal man, but are stuck in a rut. This is true for the older generations. They are so caught up with the old image of what a man is that they refuse to change