{"id":36223,"date":"2018-11-02T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36223"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:43:52","slug":"a-crisis-of-male-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-crisis-of-male-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crisis Of Male Identity:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/a-crisis-of-male-identity-patriarchy-violence-lynching-4748027\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Crisis Of Male Identity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Context:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the recent times, due to the lack of making an identity through career and academics, male identity crisis has been exacerbated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Introduction:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identity can be divided into two broad categories:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAchieved\u201d identity derived from individual endeavors (education, work and so on)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAscribed\u201d identity that is derived from intrinsic characteristics (religion, ethnicity, gender, etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The achieved identity of the Indian male is under attack today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because even though aspirations are sky-high, employment growth decreases and thus self-esteem and emotional security are more likely to be found in the ascribed identities of the Indian male.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faced with increased competition and impossible odds in the job market, their achieved identity based on work and material markers is severely threatened. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Consequences:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increase in violence against women and minorities, rampant moral policing, and attempts to criminalize alternate sexualities are all part of a consequences against the threats to male supremacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent scenario of the cow protection narrative which is being pushed today is part of a larger attempt to restore the supposedly lost glory of a muscular Hindu India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Conclusion:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The intention of the ascribed identities of targeting the \u201cother\u201d will not diminish in our context, unless purposefully countered.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Crisis Of Male Identity:\u00a0 Context: In the recent times, due to the lack of making an identity through career and academics, male identity crisis has been exacerbated. Introduction: Identity can be divided into two broad categories: \u201cAchieved\u201d identity derived from individual endeavors (education, work and so on) \u201cAscribed\u201d identity that is derived from intrinsic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-crisis-of-male-identity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Crisis Of Male Identity:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700772646,"cached_date":1704915109},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=36223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}