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Reading the article, I had to go back and reread it I felt lost but confused at the same time. For the second time reading the article I noticed that the article was written in account to several authors' thoughts about the male youth, and then growing into male hood. Then it was followed by the explanation of each author and their thought in regard to the subject. One author accounts that males in these eras are doing worse then before because the focus was taking off them and instead females became the center focus. The male hormone testosterone and biology one author felt was the blame for the violent actions of boys. This happens because of biology and its male hormone counterpart testosterone, that males feel the need to fight each other, and criminal activity. Studies have revealed that this was inconclusive, because in order to obtain the levels of testosterone, all the males will have to endure a severe testing. As you can read in this link, it discusses the correlation between young violence and crime to that of alcohol and other things not testerone.
Another author's view is that the young males have pressure that is placed on them with the passing of youth to men. The author goes to explain that this is seen in the ritual of "bar mitzvah", if that is the case then females go through the same stress to enter womanhood with bat mitzvah, sweet sixteen, and the quinceanera just to name a few. Does that mean that we have to reexamine the pressures that we place on our youth to grow up quickly, but in any culture, and any society you see the passing ritual, but in those cultures those males don't go commit crimes or even start fights. So why is that the American society has these issues? The author also argues that is seen in the military training to fraternity hazing. Fraternity hazing doesn't just happen to men but sorority hazing is in the same ranking in accordance to this article, but the reasoning for the deaths is the result of alcohol. So then the component seems to point to alcohol and the reason for male aggression to be displayed. So the author argues to "responsibly spank" your child, but if your child was bullying another child at school, spanking is not conveying the correct message, but you are displaying the same action on your child.
Whether to go through self-esteem or even be bullied by others is not just a male issue. That happens to females everyday in the school system,too. As a matter of fact there was a girl that committed suicide due to the bullying that happened to her. The article discusses the pain of self-esteem in males when in some countries males are preferred over females, for whatever the reason maybe. As the article refers that more males are depressed then females, I read a article that contradicts that and the information is available in the National Institute of Mental Health. The NIMH say that young boys and girls under the age of 14 have an equal chance of developing depression, but at the age of 14 yrs.old the girls incidence doubles. They have different ways of dealing with the depression and the signs might not be similar, that is all found in the article. There was a study done in the US, that if you were only allowed one child what would the sex be? The study showed that most couples would prefer a male baby, and if you ask the men they would say the same. As I started to search the web for articles pertaining to gender, adoptions, abortions, genetic testing, and other things it lead me to a web site with equal statistics on the gender. Would you prefer a boy or a girl, if you could have only one?
Boys learn through society's media that deems violence in so many aspects as soon as you turn on the television, to even the news. The learned behavior from male influence around them to their own peers what ever group they associate themselves with that usually characterizes their outcome. As I read this and saw that this is conveying that our men suppress their feelings, because other men tell them that it is not right to cry. I can not say that men are responsible only for telling young men that crying is for girls, because their own mother's will say the same message. So does our society deem crying is a sign of weakness, or not being manly? It might be conditioned in that society has put into place that if you fall for a young boy it is not okay for them to show emotion. We need feminist to fight that men can be allowed to show there emotions, that will lead to more sensitive, caring, and understanding men. Watch this YouTube video below on what society believes and what are the men rules for crying if it is allowed?
Reading the article, I had to go back and reread it I felt lost but confused at the same time. For the second time reading the article I noticed that the article was written in account to several authors' thoughts about the male youth, and then growing into male hood. Then it was followed by the explanation of each author and their thought in regard to the subject. One author accounts that males in these eras are doing worse then before because the focus was taking off them and instead females became the center focus. The male hormone testosterone and biology one author felt was the blame for the violent actions of boys. This happens because of biology and its male hormone counterpart testosterone, that males feel the need to fight each other, and criminal activity. Studies have revealed that this was inconclusive, because in order to obtain the levels of testosterone, all the males will have to endure a severe testing. As you can read in this link, it discusses the correlation between young violence and crime to that of alcohol and other things not testerone.
Another author's view is that the young males have pressure that is placed on them with the passing of youth to men. The author goes to explain that this is seen in the ritual of "bar mitzvah", if that is the case then females go through the same stress to enter womanhood with bat mitzvah, sweet sixteen, and the quinceanera just to name a few. Does that mean that we have to reexamine the pressures that we place on our youth to grow up quickly, but in any culture, and any society you see the passing ritual, but in those cultures those males don't go commit crimes or even start fights. So why is that the American society has these issues? The author also argues that is seen in the military training to fraternity hazing. Fraternity hazing doesn't just happen to men but sorority hazing is in the same ranking in accordance to this article, but the reasoning for the deaths is the result of alcohol. So then the component seems to point to alcohol and the reason for male aggression to be displayed. So the author argues to "responsibly spank" your child, but if your child was bullying another child at school, spanking is not conveying the correct message, but you are displaying the same action on your child.
Whether to go through self-esteem or even be bullied by others is not just a male issue. That happens to females everyday in the school system,too. As a matter of fact there was a girl that committed suicide due to the bullying that happened to her. The article discusses the pain of self-esteem in males when in some countries males are preferred over females, for whatever the reason maybe. As the article refers that more males are depressed then females, I read a article that contradicts that and the information is available in the National Institute of Mental Health. The NIMH say that young boys and girls under the age of 14 have an equal chance of developing depression, but at the age of 14 yrs.old the girls incidence doubles. They have different ways of dealing with the depression and the signs might not be similar, that is all found in the article. There was a study done in the US, that if you were only allowed one child what would the sex be? The study showed that most couples would prefer a male baby, and if you ask the men they would say the same. As I started to search the web for articles pertaining to gender, adoptions, abortions, genetic testing, and other things it lead me to a web site with equal statistics on the gender. Would you prefer a boy or a girl, if you could have only one?
Boys learn through society's media that deems violence in so many aspects as soon as you turn on the television, to even the news. The learned behavior from male influence around them to their own peers what ever group they associate themselves with that usually characterizes their outcome. As I read this and saw that this is conveying that our men suppress their feelings, because other men tell them that it is not right to cry. I can not say that men are responsible only for telling young men that crying is for girls, because their own mother's will say the same message. So does our society deem crying is a sign of weakness, or not being manly? It might be conditioned in that society has put into place that if you fall for a young boy it is not okay for them to show emotion. We need feminist to fight that men can be allowed to show there emotions, that will lead to more sensitive, caring, and understanding men. Watch this YouTube video below on what society believes and what are the men rules for crying if it is allowed?
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