SOCI 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Masculinity, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
30 Sep 2017
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Violence is a process that is intersectional. The issues within society cannot be addressed until violence as collective phenomena are addressed. Ptsd, mental illnesses, are not individual problems. the triad of violence. The violence done on men by society (the patriarchy, capitalism) The violence done on men by other men. The violence done on men by himself. Forced into making a choice to be considered healthy, normal, and living up to specific standards is a form of violence onto the self. Real men don"t cry is doubly negative because not only does it shame men for being human, it implies that they are behaving as women for expressing emotions. Being a real man involves avoiding any feminine behavior. The more we discuss masculinity the vaguer it becomes. Masculinity is intersectional and is experienced/understood in different ways by different people. Men are not inherently more autonomous than women, they are raised to believe that they are.
