Is masculinity a social construct?

[Danny Up]

I guess it comes down to environment. Could a "feminine male" really compete against a "masculine man" outside of a synthetically created environment when it comes to safety, or acquisition of resources or women? Outside of that embryo there's no benefit to having "feminine males" in your camp minus intelligence (which they would have to have because they couldn't compete physically).

Ask yourself breh, if society fell tomorrow, who would you rather have on your team...a Wesley Snipes or Justin Beiber?

So you could say it's a social construct, but you can't disregard the biological aspect either. What woman would take a weak man over a strong one? A short one over a tall one? They wouldn't. Only in an artificially created environment can those factors be discarded for a new definition.

Nature doesn't tolerate weakness...never has, never will. Female mammals in nature seek to mate with the strongest most dominant never the weakest.

What does weakness have to do with being masculine or feminine?

 

[Matt504]

Google

Masculinity possession of qualities traditionally associated with men characteristics that most boys show

That's a terrible definition.

 

[Danny Up]

Google

Masculinity possession of qualities traditionally associated with men characteristics that most boys show

which are...?

 

[Poitier]

 

[DaddyTime]

I've read this somewhere and I wanted to know how or why this is true.

not when it comes to universal masculine principles which we can view as patterns/trends throughout nature.

but when it comes to societal concepts of masculinity, opinions will differ and are a result of social constructs.

so yes and no

 

[Redeem87]

which are...?

Virile ,powerful ,dominance muscular , physically aggressive . There are women out there who act like those but not the majority of them and we shouldn't base what is normal on the small few compared to the millions who act feminine even if they talk like dudes NY women lol

 

[BocaRear]

Define masculinity

On a primal level I think masculinity can be defined as the outwards expression of the male in order to reach his eventual goal of procreating with women in order to further his lineage and create offspring.

There are things which are intrinsically masculine throughout nature such as fighting for mates, asserting dominance and providing for your group which can be seen amongst all mammals.

Of course, human society is more complex and we have different cultures that change perception of masculinity, we have also outgrown primitive lifestyles so there are changes as to what constitutes as masculinity

 

[Diondon]

Are gender differences innate or learned?

Biology explains damn near everything

 

[Danny Up]

On a primal level I think masculinity can be defined as the outwards expression of the male in order to reach his eventual goal of procreating with women in order to further his lineage and create offspring.

There are things which are intrinsically masculine throughout nature such as fighting for mates, asserting dominance and providing for your group which can be seen amongst all mammals.

Of course, human society is more complex and we have different cultures that change perception of masculinity, we have also outgrown primitive lifestyles so there are changes as to what constitutes as masculinity

So only one man can be masculine?

 

[Poitier]

Are gender differences innate or learned?

Biology explains damn near everything

lol you realize thats a racist site backed with no evidence?

 

[BocaRear]

So only one man can be masculine?

No, all males have raw masculine urges ingrained into them similar to the "fight or flight" mechanism

 

[Diondon]

lol you realize thats a racist site backed with no evidence?

You got Google don't ya

 

[Redeem87]

David Reimer was raised as a girl because the doctor burned his penis off during circumcision check out his story

He later killed himself its the whole nuture vs nature but I think that might be going off topic just thought it might have something to with what op is talking about I'm prob way off tho lol

 

[Poitier]

You got Google don't ya

I do and I'm too smart to ever think masculinity is only biological.

 

[Knuckles Red]

So you had to be told to act like a man before you started acting like one? Cool
Im also assuming that these men that find there's nothing innate about a man being masculine have an absolute 0 count of testosterone

Everything in our society tells men how to be masculine, and women how to be feminine. Through songs, movies, commercials. Corporations depend on these gender binaries to sell us shyt. Pink girly toys for little girls. Rough, tough toys for boys. On into adulthood with deodorant being marketed to women in pink sparkly cans while men's deodorant is "EXTREME," as a way of marketing to men. Even when we're babies boys get the blue colored room, and girls get the pink colored room. No, no one sat me down one day and told me I had to do x, y, and z if I wanted to appear masculine, but we pick up on these social cues along the way. Its so ingrained in our society that you might not even pick up on it.