Blog Post Number One - Are Males Born Or Made?

Since birth, boys are told not to play with dolls, but to surround themselves with action figures and video games. Even before birth, when parents know that their child is a boy, they pick out certain colors for the baby clothes. How often do you see a baby boy in bright pink baby clothes?

Society has set certain standards for men of how they should act and how they should look. There are even standards of their financial status and career. As boys get older, they are taught that crying is a sign of weakness that strong men do not cry. Strong men should be independent and know how to fight. What makes a man handsome or good looking? Billboard ads and commercials from clothing companies and such, set standards by having muscular men, half naked posed for jeans and sunglasses. By doing so, it brain washes us to believe that in order to be handsome or hot, men should be muscular. Even principles of what a man should know, for instance, men should know about cars, how to repair cars or the house sink and toilet. All these standards that men are suppose to have a well paid, stable job, marry a woman and support the family, however, does this necessarily mean they're masculine? What is masculine? It's nothing but hundreds of years of tradition, molded into guidelines and principles of how a man should act and look. Whatever that doesn't fit into that category isn't masculine, but who's to say what is and what isn't?