Are Men in Trouble?

I just think we look at it differently. To me masculinity are traits that are inherent to men. Inherent, as in natural. Culture however, either reinforces or overrides the expression of those traits. That's how I see it anyways.

 

Either during or after sex.

 

I think educated, ambitious, successful women are great. I'm not diminished in any way by their success.

 

after he is dead and loses muscle control over his tear ducts

 

if we were to let nature take it's course we wouldn't have medicine, cars, or porn on-demand from al gore's internet. nature can be overrated sometimes

 

How do you figure that?

 

When his wife, mom, or dog dies, and the wife is debatable.

 

Debatable only depending on the amount of life insurance he had on her.

 

Baraka, in no culture do the men cry more than women. Explain that.

 

Well, in some cultures, Polyandry is well accepted....

 

So where do cultural definitions of masculinity begin and where do natural ones end?

 

What do you mean? Up until the feminist movement took hold a few decades ago the male role within all cultures has been virtually the same, just as the female's role has been the same. Throughout history within all cultures the male has been the strong, protector, initiator and the woman has been the more passive, nurturing, responder...The woman takes care of the home and the children while the men go out of the home and attempt to hunt/work/fight for the well being of their family. That has been the male/female dynamic throughout history...up until the feminist movement.

 

I don't know that this is true. Setting questions of its truthiness aside, you seemed to be saying that masculinity as it exists in a cultural form is actually just a manifestation of some sort of innate natural masculinity. So where do innate natural masculinity end and where does cultural masculinity begin?

Personally, I don't think it makes sense to draw a line between "natural" behavior and cultural behavior. It's all natural.

 

The irony of all of this discussion of the "pussification" of the American male is that one of the main reasons women have surpassed men in higher education is precisely because men resist entering widely perceived "female" occupations. So while I am not trying to argue about "pussification," whatever that is, what the OP points to is actually evidence of men clinging to masculinity in some form.

As people started getting married later, getting divorced, and so on, women started moving into generally male dominated professions. So there are many more women majoring in engineering, math, chemistry, etc. On the other hand, men have resisted moving into traditional female majors, like nursing, psychology and education.