• lady_maria@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What about the mainstream media, which is almost entirely controlled by the 1%? And the corporations who advertise their curated versions of masculinity and femininity in order to make us feel inadequate so we buy more if their shit?

    Obviously, parents and peers often buy into that garbage and impose that sams toxicity on boys and men, too, but thats because they’ve also been force-fed the same garbage everyone else has their entire lives. It’s a systemic problem.

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      1 year ago

      Media perpetuates these ideals but they didn’t originate with them. These ideals of masculinity have been around for hundreds of years before the modern media.

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        1 year ago

        No, but I never said that they originated with the media, either. Your original comment indicated that you were talking about the present, so that’s what I was referring to as well.

        My point is that the media influences gender norms and expectations at least as much as—if not more than—parents and peers, and has done so for generations. As the media largely represents the ideals of those with power and money, those same people are effectively “instilling these toxic ideals of masculinity in to young men”.

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          1 year ago

          You say yourself here, “the media influences gender norms… at least as much as”. Yeah, of course, it is a problem throughout all layers of society. Your earlier comment seemed to be saying that blame should be mostly with the 1%? I’m not sure what you are saying here.