Relationship Between Masculinity And Violence

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MASCULINITY AND VIOLENCE

INTRODUCTION Taking about relationship between masculinity and violence we should talk about “violence” first so "Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something" OR "Strength of emotion or of a destructive natural force" is called violence. For instance: brutality, roughness, cruelty, barbarity, barbarousness, bloodthirstiness, ruthlessness, inhumanity, heartlessness, pitilessness, mercilessness. On the other hand, masculinity is “Possession of the qualities traditionally associated with men” or "Handsome, muscled, and driven, he's a prime example of masculinity" For instance virility, manliness, maleness, vigor, strength, muscularity, ruggedness, toughness, robustness.
It is also a deeply pessimistic belief. Instead, we now know that domestic violence, rape and other forms of violence are social and cultural facts, not biological facts. The link between being male and being violent is the product of society and history, not biology. Boys and men are perfectly capable of being loving, caring human beings, and it is manhood or masculinity which creates this intimate link between men and violence. Men's monopoly of violence is the product of a lifetime's training in how to be a "real" man. The dominant model of masculinity offers to boys and men such qualities as aggressiveness, control, a sense of entitlement to power, and emotional callousness, as well as a series of myths which justify men's violence and men's power. In Western countries, to "be a man" is to be tough, self-reliant and dominant. Many males are taught to adopt an aggressive and violent masculinity, to be repressive of empathy and extremely competitive. One of the central images of masculinity is the murderous hero, the specialist in violence: Rambo, the Terminator, James Bond and many others. Thus, boys and men who are violent are in part acting out the dictates of what it means to be a "normal"