I really don't think having muscles or being involved in sports have anything to do with being a "real" man. I personally think men with huge muscles are gross. They don't prove anything and they don't make a man what he is because it is just a physical trait. I also don't think sports should be what characterizes someone as manly. I have never been involved in sports, watched sports or really cared at all about sports. I get along better with guys who aren't athletic. I don't see them as any less of a man because they don't play a sport.
Seeing those traits as what characterizes someone as a man is just as bad as characterizing women as beautiful for just their breasts. We should be more focused on intelligence and personality. Where will sports get most people in the long wrong? Most people can't make a career out of it and just watching it certainly doesn't make you manly. Having muscles is only physical and it won't really get you any farther in life unless you have other talents. Being smart and having some character will get you a lot farther in your work and personal life.
i agree 100%. out of all the articles i have read, this is by far the best explaination out of all of them. muscles dont make a man masculine so why would big breasts make a woman beautiful ? thats not beauty, just surface appearence.
ReplyDeleteYou make a really good comparison between the two different surveys we took in class. Are there other places in the results of those two things that demonstrate other double standards or unconscious beliefs?
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