{"id":51690,"date":"2019-08-29T18:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51690"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:52:11","slug":"answered-indias-culture-of-toxic-masculinity-is-incompatible-with-democracy-and-exacerbates-social-conflict-comment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-indias-culture-of-toxic-masculinity-is-incompatible-with-democracy-and-exacerbates-social-conflict-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cIndia\u2019s culture of toxic masculinity is incompatible with democracy and exacerbates social conflict.\u201d Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> What is toxic masculinity.
Body. <\/strong>Issue of toxic masculinity and solution.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Toxic masculinity refers to gender norms and beliefs about masculinity that not only harm society but also negatively impact men themselves. Most commonly, these beliefs stem from the male pride or privilege that establishes men as the superior. The persistent use of phrases like \u2018men don\u2019t cry\u2019 or encouraging aggressive behaviour amongst boys are some examples of toxic masculinity. This behaviour is termed as \u2018toxic\u2019 as it leads us to associate damaging or violent behaviour with masculinity. Abuse, domestic violence and other crimes against women are closely related to the problem of toxic masculinity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toxic\nmasculinity is against democracy and exacerbate social conflict as:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Suppression: <\/strong>Toxic masculinity dictates\nthat the only emotion men can express is anger, which can hinder men from\ngetting in touch with other things they’re feeling. Eventually, this distance\nmen from other people and keep them from developing close relationships with their\npartners and kids. Suppressing emotions lead to aggression and violence towards\nwomen.<\/li>
  2. Encouragement Of Violence: <\/strong>Toxic\nmasculinity promote violence as the best way for men to prove their strength\nand power, and it discourages them from releasing their feelings in other ways.\nThis often lead to abuse especially of women.<\/li>
  3. Discouragement Of Seeking Help: <\/strong>Men are\nless likely than women seek help regarding their mental health, which is likely\ndue to ideals of masculinity. The ideal of a tough man who doesn’t struggle\nwith any emotions can force men to withstand untreated mental health problems.\nThis lead to depression, conflicts, fights and abuse in relations.<\/li>
  4.  Perpetuation\nOf Rape Culture:<\/strong> Cultures that encourage masculinity, specifically in\nfraternities, often lead to rape culture. It lead to development of feeling of\ndominance and hierarchy in mind of men. Toxic masculinity dictates men that\ntheir identity hinges on their ability to exert dominance over women, and one\ncommon way that men use to assert their dominance is through sexual assault and\nharassment.<\/li>
  5. Patriarchy: <\/strong>Toxic masculine perpetuates\nthe idea that being like a girl is a negative trait. Toxic masculinity teaches\nus that men are in charge, which means women are not. It teaches that men are\nsuperior and women are inferior, that men are strong and women are weak. Thus\nby attaching certain characteristics to men and valuing them above qualities\nassociated with women, toxic masculinity encourages a culture that encourage\nmale gender over female. Toxic masculinity, thus lead to patriarchy in the\nsociety.<\/li>
  6. Against democracy: <\/strong>Democracy preach an\negalitarian society where all genders, sects are equal. Toxic masculinity\nencourage male dominance and consider female as inferior and unequal. The\ncentral feature in the culture of toxic masculinity is domination, which is\ndeeply incompatible with a freedom-sensitive, egalitarian ethic. <\/li>
  7. Anti-empathetic: <\/strong>Aggression is natural\nand desirable in men. A real man should be eager to pick up a fight. Men must\nbe tough muscular and unemotional. They must not grieve and cry. Toxic\nmasculinity lead to men who do not accept the other\u2019s point of view, who don\u2019t show\nempathy and understanding and gentleness and compassion. This lead to destruction\nof sensitivity among men towards others especially women.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    What should be\ndone?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. We need to create platforms for young men to\nshare their fears, their doubts, and their insecurities about sexuality,\npatriarchy, masculinity, and the burden of expectations they bear.<\/li>
    2. We need activities that are not only political\nor religious, but that get young men together to unlearn gender norms and learn\nequitable behaviour. It can be sports, music, theatre, or even bird watching, so\nlong as it allows young men to be free from narrow, negative, and gendered\nidentities.<\/li>
    3. The government and private sector are already\nrunning skilling programmes across the country. Integrating a gender lens into\nthese initiatives to make them address questions of gender-based power\nstructures in the workplace, and sensitise both men and women to them, would be\nboth cost-effective and societally useful.<\/li>
    4. Civil society organisations that work with girls\nand women could be engaged with to share learnings, provide support, and even\naid in designing programmes for men and boys. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Traditionally, men were considered to be breadwinners of the family and expected to shoulder all the responsibility, where a man goes out for hunting while the woman takes care of home. Though times have changed, this belief system being passed onto generation to another haven\u2019t changed. The belief system powered by toxic masculinity finds it difficult to accept a woman with power. We need to change this to progress with time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. What is toxic masculinity. Body. Issue of toxic masculinity and solution. Conclusion. Way forward. Toxic masculinity refers to gender norms and beliefs about masculinity that not only harm society but also negatively impact men themselves. Most commonly, these beliefs stem from the male pride or privilege that establishes men as… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cIndia\u2019s culture of toxic masculinity is incompatible with democracy and exacerbates social conflict.\u201d Comment.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51690","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}