Jitendra Meena (B16EE014)

Assignment Question (option for ppt)-

Question

Is Toxic Masculinity similar to Hegemonic Masculinity? What is the

relationship between both of them? Give an example from your personal
experience that you have when you encountered toxic masculinity.

Answer

Toxic Masculinity is not similar to Hegemonic Masculinity.

Toxic masculinity generally refers to indigenous cultural practices that can
harm women, men and society. This toxic concept of masculinity is not
intended to produce male demons or masculine traits, but a detrimental
consequence of acclimatizing to a particular culture. It is belief that Quiet or
get in trouble, Maintain the presence of rigidity, Violence as an indicator of
power. Male toxicity is soft and invasive of masculinity and refers to
masculinity as determined by violence, gender and anger. The issue of human
emotions of the Emotions is the weakness The powers are everything. While
gender and violence are important events for men to think about, it can be a
feminist which can range from emotional inability to sexual desire - can
eliminate the status of masculine ways.

Hegemonic masculinity is defined as the process of regulating the social status

of men in society and the inclusion of the entire male and female population,
as well as ways of reducing a man. Collectively, the purpose of the hegemonic
masculinity is to explain how and why older men create the immediate effects
on women and gender identity that we consider to be "feminist" in society.
The conceptual beginnings of hegemonic masculinity represented the
culturally idealized form of manhood that was socially and hierarchically
exclusive and concerned with bread-winning; that was anxiety-provoking and
differentiated; that was brutal and violent, pseudo-natural and tough,
psychologically contradictory, and thus crisis-prone; economically rich and
socially sustained. However, many sociologists criticized that definition
of hegemonic masculinity as a fixed character-type, which is analytically
limited, because it excludes the complexity of different, and competing, forms
of masculinity. Consequently, hegemonic masculinity was reformulated to
include gender hierarchy, the geography of masculine configurations, the
processes of social embodiment, and the psycho-social dynamics of the
varieties of masculinity.

These above details shows that these masculinity have some relationship that
is explain how and why men maintain dominant social roles over women and
other gender identities, which are perceived as feminism in a given society.

An example from my personal experience

Expectation for boys to ignore and suppress their issues and problems.

Some peoples think men are stronger, and manly and should man up and face
their problems and stop complaining. It is not expected from men to complaint
to much as compare to women.