How important are the top two responses on the masculinity graph? Should we be working to take into
account other characteristics?
- The top two characteristics on the masculinity graph was muscles being number one, and athletic/sports coming in at number two. I don't think either one of these really has a lot to do with masculinity, but in today's world in America, that is what its all about. I haven't really grown up in a world where masculinity isn't muscles, athleticism, nice cars, etc. I think that is really pathetic that men have to be judged on characteristics like those. I think that other characteristics should definitely come into play. To me a good personality, being independent, proving for a family, and things along those lines make a man more masculine. I don't think material things should matter at all.
You say that you don't think muscles and sports have "a lot to do with masculinity," and also that you "haven't really grown up in a world where masculinity isn't muscles, athleticism, nice cars, etc." Don't these two ideas contradict each other? If muscles and sports don't have a lot to do with masculinity, then how can these have represented masculinity through your entire life thus far?
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