Post #4: Assigned September 23, 2010........title

Look at the results from Tuesday's survey on the traits of masculinity, which I also showed in class.  How important are the top two responses, muscles and athletics/sports, for establishing masculinity?  Should we be working to take into account other characteristics?

Society puts alot of what i would call as stress on boys to turn into men by being jacked and being good at sports. because in society if you arent good at or built your gay, thats one thing society can outcast you for...."oh you dont like football your a fag....." its important for man to find himself but you dont have to be jacked and you dont have to like sports to do it.

Do we focus on physical appearance too much?

How do you respond to the arguments that have been made in this week's reading?  Is our popular culture healthy in regards to beauty?  Do we focus on physical appearance too much?

I think it is almost impossible for people now of days to not care about it. If I drop mustard on my shirt i drive home and put a new shirt on not because i really need a new shirt but because i dont want people seeing me in a mustard coverd shirt. But why do i care so much? why do poeple care so much. I think it shares a correlation with sex. we relate everything in this world to sex, anything that can be sex the media will turn into sex. What people need to get through their heads is that it is not a compition, sure you wanna be known by more than a few hundred people, but you cant beat the computer animatied women, sorry ladies