Who You Calling Boy? Theorizing Masculinities

a blog created by and for UCF (University of Central Florida) Theories of Masculinity students to share experiences, resources/links, articles/reviews, to rouse discussion and incite action, and engage issues related to masculinity. you should participate, too. email moderator for permission at Leandra@ucf.edu.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

“Feminism: The Downfall of Civilization”

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This article essentially summarizes the “Men’s Rights” (heavy emphasis on the quotation marks) movement, by saying that women should not be...

"It's Not About the Braid, It's About the Bond"

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A single father set up a program with his young daughter to teach other fathers about hair and how to manage, braid, understand their daught...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Ten Responses to the Phrase "Man Up"

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Scrolling my timeline on Facebook, I came across this little gem. I'm a huge fan of the tingles I get down my spine upon hearing a pheno...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Cultural Masculinity/Femininity

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Masculinity and femininity are social constructs that vary culture to culture. Dutch social psychologist Gerard Hendrik Hofstede is popular...

Gay and Masculine

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Something I've been thinking about over the past couple weeks is how homosexuality and masculinity work together. One of my best friends...

New Girl

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Season 5 of New Girl has a story line in which one of the main characters, Schmidt, feels the need to prove himself as a man on the day of h...

DC Comic's Cyborg and Masculinity

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Comic books are a bastion of the idealized male in popular culture- heroic, muscular, adventurous, violent, adored and dominant. Comics allo...

The Price Gap: Car Insurance

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When you think about money and the role gender plays, most people will reflect on the pay wage gap where women generally make 80 percent of...

Joe Rogan

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You may have seen him on Fear Factor or commenting on UCF, but Joe Rogan is most successful as a podcaster and comedian. Three of my male fr...

Biblical masculinity.

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Masculinity is a learned behavior; we “act” it out in ways we are taught or exposed to whether it be via media or family, etc. Some people,...

Masculinity in Saturday Night Fever

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I recently rewatched Saturday Night Fever because it became it available on Netflix and it was listed in Ebert's "Great Movies II...

Toxic Masculinity

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L ast summer, two young football players in the Ohio town of Steubenville carried the unconscious body of a local girl from party to part...

WHY WE NEED TO REIMAGINE MASCULINITY

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WHY WE NEED TO REIMAGINE MASCULINITY What’s the matter with men? For years, the media have delivered the direst of prognoses. Men are “...

"Manning Up": Men May Overcompensate When Masculinity is Threatened by Deborah Back

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Manning Up: Men May Overcompensate... From the old Charles Atlas ads showing a scrawny male having sand kicked in his face to sitcom cli...

Masculinity Has Proven Itself Deadly: Uncovering the Trauma In Men After Baton Rouge Police Shootings

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Masculinity Has Proven Itself Deadly: Uncovering the Trauma In Men After Baton Rouge Police Shootings The suspect in the fatal shooting...

Afraid to Victimize Men

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http://collegian.com/2016/11/rodenbaugh-consent-isnt-a-womens-issue-but-that-doesnt-make-it-a-mens-issue/      Too many people are surpr...

Why I had to kill my sister to defend our family's 'honor'

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*Trigger warning: Extreme violence Why I had to kill my sister to defend our family’s ‘honor’ rigger   Mubeen Rajhu, who kille...

Don't Blame Men for Hillary's Loss

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https://newrepublic.com/article/138933/post-hillary-feminism I see, "Women failed Clinton" on one station, "Men prove they...

International Men's Day

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"There is no monopoly on suffering."          November 19th marked International Men's Day, this year focusing on male s...

Tyler Curry's The Strength in Being a Feminine Gay Man - A must read for all minorities.

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Tyler Curry is a freelance columnist and fiction writer; who created “The Needle Prick Project”.  He updated his October 2013 blog, “The St...

Nathan, Unspoken Hero

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Today, I sat at work faced with computer trouble. You know how the day starts, running late, 30 degree temperatures, no coffee or caffeine ...

Merriam-Webster's Definition of "Femininity"

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Merriam-Webster’s Definition of “Femininity” I came across this article on the Huffington Post website: http://www.huffingtonpost.com...

Can Men be Feminists?

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Can Men be Feminists? Someone might have previously touched on this topic, however I this is an ongoing argument in feminism. I would...

Masculinity in Fairytales

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       Walt Disney is world renowned for coming up with creative ways to retell old stories such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and T...
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