I grew up thinking that men and women were treated equally until one day in elementary school when it was time to go outside and play dodgeball. Two male captains were picked, and I noticed all the boys were being picked first and no one wanted to have the girls on their teams. This is […]
There are numerous scholarly articles, such as “Understanding Masculinity”, by Radhika Chopra, Chaitali Dasgupta and Mandeep K. Janeja, that discusses the underlying connection on toxic masculinity and how it affects a male’s mental health and emotions. With the rising evolution of feminism and changing societal norms on gender roles, representation for young males affected by […]
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Get startedNapoleon Bonaparte once said, ‘Great ambition is the passion of great character. Those endowed with it may perform good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles that direct them .’ In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, we see how Macbeth takes a prophecy he gets of potentially becoming a king into his own hands […]
Toxic is not a good thing at all. Masculinity defend as a characteristic of men or the role that a man supposed to play. Now when you put the two words together Toxic Masculinity you think of a poison, harmful or ill man. The effect Toxic Masculinity has on man and as well as woman […]
Edgar Allan Poe, a worldwide renowned author, lived a short, yet otherworldly life, and made a prosperous living writing his iconic themes of horror, murder, and mystery, all recognized throughout his famous short story, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ In Poe’s, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ he does not specifically characterize the narrator’s gender, contradicting the motive to kill […]
Throughout the British Literature time period of 450-1066: the roles and perspective of women were very subjective in the idea that a woman needs a man to be powerful. An independent woman was viewed as weak and unimportant. The belief that a man good fix or heal an evil/ bad women was a common belief. […]
Some socio-cultural factors like culture and schooling/education can shape one’s perspective on gender roles they take upon and social perception of them. Growing up in a conservative culture teaches a girl her inconveniences compared to a boy. Notwithstanding, independence doesn’t come without the price of being educated in a society built upon years of misogyny […]
