Masculinity at its finest

This week in class we started to discuss the topic of gender. We decided to focus on masculinity first.


When I googled masculinity, one of the first topics that came up was a masculine/feminine test, which actually surprised me a lot. Who has the time to take masculinity tests?? But when i searched images, this photo was the first one to pop up. In today's society, masculinity is associated with how bulk ans big you are, how many sports you play, how deep your voice is, how much money you make, and most noticeably, how in control you are. Everyone in today's society is taught to believe that the man should be the alpha of the house and should be able to provide for the female. However, in some cases I believe this to be absurd. If the man is in between jobs and is struggling to make ends meet, I should be able to pay for my meal or even pay for the whole date. This honestly makes me so upset because sometimes I really want to be independent and pay for my bill but the boy takes it away before I can see the total on the check. The topic of masculinity is very controversial and I won't dig into it too deeply, but I just know people have a very wicked mindset on what a man should look like and what a man should do.