Our BetterMost Community > Chez Tremblay

Manliness and the Men of Brokeback

<< < (2/3) > >>

Sheyne:

Wow.. Thanks for posting that, Victoria.  One my professors at uni, who lectures on the way society defines masculine and feminine roles, would have a coronary reading that.  It was a marvellous critique of a difficult subject, one that seems to have been written about by a "man's man"..  *sigh*

Great article.  Thanks again for posting it.

littleguitar:
Interesting article, thanks Vic!  It's actually really similar to my final paper for my gender and communications class last term... I love this subject!

Kd5000:
I remember in the late 1970's thru the mid 1980's, there was talk of masculinity evolving to a more sensitive male.  Alan Alda in MASH was the personification of the new male. Whatever happened to that? 

Ennis and Jack were such males of their times, particularly Ennis. WHo knows what direction the male is evolving into becoming. IS the ALpah MAle (THE AVIATOR) dead, as GQ I believed asked. I suppose not quite, as ppl like BIll Gates, industrialist, super rich, philanthropist are held in such high self esteem. 

What became of the men's movement. DId that wither away? Fire in the Belly, Iron John,  books like that seem so 1990's right now.

Every decade seems to have it's take on what it means to be a man.

By the way, I thought things like symphonic music, gardening, etc were supposed to have a civilizing affect on males, to counter the agressive social expectations expected in work, life, sports etc.   Just what I've been told.    They seem to have a different take on classical music, particularly Beethoven.

j.U.d.E.:
Sorry, just bumping for later..

~ j U d E

starboardlight:
Quote from the article;
--- Quote ---Mansfield tries to rescue manliness from all this fretful ambiguity by defining it as "confidence in the face of risk,"
--- End quote ---
wait a second. isn't "confidence in the face of risk" a quality we all aspire to, man or woman? if a woman is confident in the face of risk, that that make her masculine?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page