How movies teach manhood

We obviously live in a time where things are changing quickly. Colin Stokes found out how the roles of men and women have changed over recent years by watching cartoons and animated movies with his children. Check this video to understand what’s going on with role allocation.

You should really watch this video. It’s highly interesting what he experienced in such a short time between the birth of his daughter and the birth of his son.

We obviously live in a time where things are changing quickly. Colin Stokes found out how the roles of men and women have changed over recent years by watching cartoons and animated movies with his children. Check this video to understand what’s going on with role allocation.

You should really watch this video. It’s highly interesting what he experienced in such a short time between the birth of his daughter and the birth of his son.

https://www.ted.com/talks/colin_stokes_how_movies_teach_manhood (that's the link, I don't know why you can't click on it; just copy and paste!)

Today we only think about women who need to protect themselves and who need to gain more power, self-confidence, equality etc. But what we forget in this context are men. We never think about that they are also going through a time of great changes and that their whole way of thinking, their attitude might also be changing. I mean, we still them as the ones who always want to be the stronger one in a relationship, the leader of a family, the dominant part in the world.

We want women to be seen as full members of society who cannot only be housewives and mothers but who can also be successful in their career. However, generally men are not considered to be able to take care of their children or even to claim maternity leave for them (take note that even the word maternity leave contains the word mother!). Isn’t this also inequality? Are men really still the ones who are unable to show true feelings and love? Is this a characteristic that only women have?

I know that the view on this topic is changing and that the number of men staying at home to take care of their children is increasing. Still, I think that we generally focus almost solely on the role of women in society that we forget about men.

(There are of course numerous exceptions and numerous people out there who care about the role of men in society. It’s just the case that the majority of middle-class society doesn’t.)

I welcome people to comment on this! Maybe there are some men out there who want to tell their opinion ;)

 

Today we only think about women who need to protect themselves and who need to gain more power, self-confidence, equality etc. But what we forget in this context are men. We never think about that they are also going through a time of great changes and that their whole way of thinking, their attitude might also be changing. I mean, we still them as the ones who always want to be the stronger one in a relationship, the leader of a family, the dominant part in the world.

We want women to be seen as full members of society who cannot only be housewives and mothers but who can also be successful in their career. However, generally men are not considered to be able to take care of their children or even to claim maternity leave for them (take note that even the word maternity leave contains the word mother!). Isn’t this also inequality? Are men really still the ones who are unable to show true feelings and love? Is this a characteristic that only women have?

I know that the view on this topic is changing and that the number of men staying at home to take care of their children is increasing. Still, I think that we generally focus almost solely on the role of women in society that we forget about men.

(There are of course numerous exceptions and numerous people out there who care about the role of men in society. It’s just the case that the majority of middle-class society doesn’t.)

I welcome people to comment on this! Maybe there are some men out there who want to tell their opinion ;)