Toxic Masculinity In The Unilever

For example, Steve, the gay basher, he was you stereotypical man. He was hyper-aggressive, non-emotional, and extremely violent. He craved for attention and got it mostly by hurting others. Steve was your stereotypical college guy. He acted tough, was a part of a fraternity, and was an all around jerk. For example, every time Steve is mentioned in the novel he is either threatening or physically using force on someone, most likely Jake.
For example, on page 887, chapter 12, Jake went into the fraternity house to pick up some of Alberto’s things, in case he woke up, but as he was leaving Steve showed up. Even though Jake tried to walk away Steve had to engage in violence. He was hyper-aggressive telling Jake “you don’t go until I tell you to go, little faggot” (pg. 887). Steve was violent and didn’t want to let Jake go, even though he begged. Steve didn’t stop and tried to kill Jake because Jake punched him once telling Jake “I’m going to end this right here, right now” (pg. 887) as he pulls out a knife of Jake.
Lastly, Steve was definitely non-emotional, not even caring that he had put Alberto into a coma, only making sure that he didn’t
I believe its something that we are trying to get rid of, but fail to do so because we have so many different conflicting viewpoints on how we want and think men should act. We say we want them to open up and express their emotions, but turn around and call them pussies or punks because they are crying. We say we don’t want men to be violent, but most women want a man to fight for them. If a man just walks away from a fight, we say he was scared when in reality he is just being the bigger person. In Bell Hooks feminism is for everybody, she explains why men are holding on to their masculinity saying that we are a society of “domination”. She says “Cultures of domination attack self-esteem, replacing it with a notion that we derive our sense of being from domination over one another” (pg.