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<\/div>\nThe portrayal of the modern man in media culture continues to baffle me. Most men I know are nothing like what you see on television. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I can laugh at the stereotypes without taking them too seriously. But, watching yet another show portray men as stupid, selfish, lazy, and horny is starting to become tiresome. I am a\u00a0walking, talking male contradiction \u2013 which makes something I like to call \u201cnormal.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n
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For me it works out this way: I love to read theology and yet I follow Nascar closely. I love college but not pro football. I would rather attend an academic lecture than a baseball game. I love the Family Guy but will opt for a good documentary if it is on. I enjoy the History Channel and House Hunters International. I try to shun sentimentality but have an incredible soft spot for my children. I have many friends who are men, and many friends who are women and I can have fruitful, challenging, and meaningful conversations with both. I am \u2013 as are most men \u2013 more complicated and three dimensional than Peter Griffin (I hope), and yet I\u2019m not above enjoying the exploits of Ron Burgundy.<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s challenging enough to navigate what it means to be a man in our culture without reinforcing the stereotype that we are all\u00a0stupid, selfish, lazy, and horny. I mean, we are those things, but we are so much more than those things. Manpacks ran an interesting story on these four themes that I really resonate with:<\/div>\n
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TV\u2019s been getting a lot of crap lately for how it portrays women, and rightfully so. But the solution isn\u2019t to turn to men as a source of low-brow gendered humor. Unfortunately, the past year has brought with it an onslaught of shows (How To Be A Gentleman, Last Man Standing, Work It, Man Up, A Gifted Man) that lampoon, caricature, and pigeonhole masculinity.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here are some of the myths these shows (and countless others) are teaching our culture about men:<\/span><\/div>\n 1. We\u2019re stupid.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1. We\u2019re stupid.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe trend is to paint guys as stunted, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals whose palette of emotional vocabulary is limited to \u201chappy,\u201d \u201cmad\u201d and \u201cboner.\u201d\u00a0TV guys can never communicate with their emotionally advanced girlfriends, so they end up getting into all sorts of improbable hijinks.
This, of course, can\u2019t be true, by the very fact that we\u2019re watching the show and understanding that the dude is being an idiot. But whatever, verisimilitude schmerisimilitude.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend: \u201cI\u2019m disappointed, Steve. We had a date for tonight and you blew me off for game sports beer BBQ fantasy poker night with the boys. You\u2019ve really let me down, and if this keeps happening, resentment is going to start interfering with our relationship.\u201d<\/em>
(Girlfriend walks out.)<\/em>
Steve: \u201cWhat\u2019s got her panties in a knot?\u201d<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\nWhich brings us to:<\/span><\/div>\n 2. We\u2019re selfish.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThis is sort of an extension of the stupidity. The idea is that because we\u2019re too stupid to put ourselves in other people\u2019s shoes, we can only act in our limited self-interest.
Look at a pair of classic TV couples: Homer and Marge Simpson and Peter and Lois Griffin.
Time and time again, the plot of an episode revolves around something careless and thoughtless Homer or Peter did, and Marge or Lois trying to fix things.<\/span><\/div>\nMarge\u2019s main character flaw is that she cares too much about her family.
Homer\u2019s main character flaw is that he\u2019s borderline retarded and sociopathically carless.<\/span><\/div>\nShow me a TV show with a caring, compassionate husband and a wife who\u2019s always screwing things up with her selfishness and I\u2019ll show you a cancelled TV show.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend: \u201cBabe, did you finish?\u201d<\/em>
Boyfriend: (snores)<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\nWhich brings us to:<\/span><\/div>\n 3. We\u2019re lazy.<\/strong><\/h2>\nPicture a guy, or a group of guys, sitting on a couch facing a TV, pizza boxes and beer cans strewn around like shrapnel, the faint glow of the tube illuminating the strings of drool that creep out over their chins. It\u2019s not hard to picture, is it? No, because it\u2019s an image you see all the time on TV.
Think about it: why are you picturing it from that angle? Because I told you to\u2013yeah, okay, fair point. But honestly, that\u2019s how you usually see it, because it\u2019s usually on TV.<\/span><\/div>\nYeah, sometimes men do indulge in an evening on the couch watching the game. You know what else men do? We build roads, we build buildings, we build machines that build roads and buildings. We take care of our children, we cook dinner.
And sometimes, yeah, we finish two medium pies and some cheesy bread from Dominos in one sitting. But you know what? We earned it.<\/span><\/div>\nWife: Dave, did you bring the twins to Karate practice?<\/em>
Dave: No, honey, the game\u2019s on! I gave them the keys to the car. They can drive themselves.<\/em>
Wife: Dave, they\u2019re ten years old.<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n 4. We\u2019re horny.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThis is possibly the most classic stereotype, purveyed by almost every TV show and movie that focuses on men.\u00a0And I\u2019m not going to lie here\u2026we are. We still have the intrinsic programming handed down from our primitive ancestors to constantly search for viable mates in order to contribute to the development of the species.\u00a0But you know what else we have?\u00a0Empathy. Civility. Algebra. And a handful of other things that the apes just haven\u2019t figured out yet. And we can (and DO) use those things to moderate our behavior, because we\u2019re freaking human beings.
Our eyes might wander without our permission, but our hands don\u2019t.
To propagate the stereotype that men are slaves to their penises is no better than propagating the stereotype that women are slaves to their emotions.<\/span><\/div>\nPop culture is saturated with these stereotypes. You might even see traces of them in real life, BUT it\u2019s up to us to work against them with everything we do, lest we be doomed to live life like clowns in a 3-walled living room with a live studio audience.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend\/Boyfriend: \u201cAnd that\u2019s a BUT we can all get behind.\u201d<\/em>
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This, of course, can\u2019t be true, by the very fact that we\u2019re watching the show and understanding that the dude is being an idiot. But whatever, verisimilitude schmerisimilitude.<\/span><\/div>\n
Girlfriend: \u201cI\u2019m disappointed, Steve. We had a date for tonight and you blew me off for game sports beer BBQ fantasy poker night with the boys. You\u2019ve really let me down, and if this keeps happening, resentment is going to start interfering with our relationship.\u201d<\/em>
(Girlfriend walks out.)<\/em>
Steve: \u201cWhat\u2019s got her panties in a knot?\u201d<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
(Girlfriend walks out.)<\/em>
Steve: \u201cWhat\u2019s got her panties in a knot?\u201d<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
Which brings us to:<\/span><\/div>\n 2. We\u2019re selfish.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
2. We\u2019re selfish.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThis is sort of an extension of the stupidity. The idea is that because we\u2019re too stupid to put ourselves in other people\u2019s shoes, we can only act in our limited self-interest.
Look at a pair of classic TV couples: Homer and Marge Simpson and Peter and Lois Griffin.
Time and time again, the plot of an episode revolves around something careless and thoughtless Homer or Peter did, and Marge or Lois trying to fix things.<\/span><\/div>\nMarge\u2019s main character flaw is that she cares too much about her family.
Homer\u2019s main character flaw is that he\u2019s borderline retarded and sociopathically carless.<\/span><\/div>\nShow me a TV show with a caring, compassionate husband and a wife who\u2019s always screwing things up with her selfishness and I\u2019ll show you a cancelled TV show.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend: \u201cBabe, did you finish?\u201d<\/em>
Boyfriend: (snores)<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\nWhich brings us to:<\/span><\/div>\n 3. We\u2019re lazy.<\/strong><\/h2>\nPicture a guy, or a group of guys, sitting on a couch facing a TV, pizza boxes and beer cans strewn around like shrapnel, the faint glow of the tube illuminating the strings of drool that creep out over their chins. It\u2019s not hard to picture, is it? No, because it\u2019s an image you see all the time on TV.
Think about it: why are you picturing it from that angle? Because I told you to\u2013yeah, okay, fair point. But honestly, that\u2019s how you usually see it, because it\u2019s usually on TV.<\/span><\/div>\nYeah, sometimes men do indulge in an evening on the couch watching the game. You know what else men do? We build roads, we build buildings, we build machines that build roads and buildings. We take care of our children, we cook dinner.
And sometimes, yeah, we finish two medium pies and some cheesy bread from Dominos in one sitting. But you know what? We earned it.<\/span><\/div>\nWife: Dave, did you bring the twins to Karate practice?<\/em>
Dave: No, honey, the game\u2019s on! I gave them the keys to the car. They can drive themselves.<\/em>
Wife: Dave, they\u2019re ten years old.<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n 4. We\u2019re horny.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThis is possibly the most classic stereotype, purveyed by almost every TV show and movie that focuses on men.\u00a0And I\u2019m not going to lie here\u2026we are. We still have the intrinsic programming handed down from our primitive ancestors to constantly search for viable mates in order to contribute to the development of the species.\u00a0But you know what else we have?\u00a0Empathy. Civility. Algebra. And a handful of other things that the apes just haven\u2019t figured out yet. And we can (and DO) use those things to moderate our behavior, because we\u2019re freaking human beings.
Our eyes might wander without our permission, but our hands don\u2019t.
To propagate the stereotype that men are slaves to their penises is no better than propagating the stereotype that women are slaves to their emotions.<\/span><\/div>\nPop culture is saturated with these stereotypes. You might even see traces of them in real life, BUT it\u2019s up to us to work against them with everything we do, lest we be doomed to live life like clowns in a 3-walled living room with a live studio audience.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend\/Boyfriend: \u201cAnd that\u2019s a BUT we can all get behind.\u201d<\/em>
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Look at a pair of classic TV couples: Homer and Marge Simpson and Peter and Lois Griffin.
Time and time again, the plot of an episode revolves around something careless and thoughtless Homer or Peter did, and Marge or Lois trying to fix things.<\/span><\/div>\n
Marge\u2019s main character flaw is that she cares too much about her family.
Homer\u2019s main character flaw is that he\u2019s borderline retarded and sociopathically carless.<\/span><\/div>\n
Homer\u2019s main character flaw is that he\u2019s borderline retarded and sociopathically carless.<\/span><\/div>\n
Show me a TV show with a caring, compassionate husband and a wife who\u2019s always screwing things up with her selfishness and I\u2019ll show you a cancelled TV show.<\/span><\/div>\n
Girlfriend: \u201cBabe, did you finish?\u201d<\/em>
Boyfriend: (snores)<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
Boyfriend: (snores)<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
Which brings us to:<\/span><\/div>\n 3. We\u2019re lazy.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
3. We\u2019re lazy.<\/strong><\/h2>\nPicture a guy, or a group of guys, sitting on a couch facing a TV, pizza boxes and beer cans strewn around like shrapnel, the faint glow of the tube illuminating the strings of drool that creep out over their chins. It\u2019s not hard to picture, is it? No, because it\u2019s an image you see all the time on TV.
Think about it: why are you picturing it from that angle? Because I told you to\u2013yeah, okay, fair point. But honestly, that\u2019s how you usually see it, because it\u2019s usually on TV.<\/span><\/div>\nYeah, sometimes men do indulge in an evening on the couch watching the game. You know what else men do? We build roads, we build buildings, we build machines that build roads and buildings. We take care of our children, we cook dinner.
And sometimes, yeah, we finish two medium pies and some cheesy bread from Dominos in one sitting. But you know what? We earned it.<\/span><\/div>\nWife: Dave, did you bring the twins to Karate practice?<\/em>
Dave: No, honey, the game\u2019s on! I gave them the keys to the car. They can drive themselves.<\/em>
Wife: Dave, they\u2019re ten years old.<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n 4. We\u2019re horny.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThis is possibly the most classic stereotype, purveyed by almost every TV show and movie that focuses on men.\u00a0And I\u2019m not going to lie here\u2026we are. We still have the intrinsic programming handed down from our primitive ancestors to constantly search for viable mates in order to contribute to the development of the species.\u00a0But you know what else we have?\u00a0Empathy. Civility. Algebra. And a handful of other things that the apes just haven\u2019t figured out yet. And we can (and DO) use those things to moderate our behavior, because we\u2019re freaking human beings.
Our eyes might wander without our permission, but our hands don\u2019t.
To propagate the stereotype that men are slaves to their penises is no better than propagating the stereotype that women are slaves to their emotions.<\/span><\/div>\nPop culture is saturated with these stereotypes. You might even see traces of them in real life, BUT it\u2019s up to us to work against them with everything we do, lest we be doomed to live life like clowns in a 3-walled living room with a live studio audience.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend\/Boyfriend: \u201cAnd that\u2019s a BUT we can all get behind.\u201d<\/em>
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Think about it: why are you picturing it from that angle? Because I told you to\u2013yeah, okay, fair point. But honestly, that\u2019s how you usually see it, because it\u2019s usually on TV.<\/span><\/div>\n
Yeah, sometimes men do indulge in an evening on the couch watching the game. You know what else men do? We build roads, we build buildings, we build machines that build roads and buildings. We take care of our children, we cook dinner.
And sometimes, yeah, we finish two medium pies and some cheesy bread from Dominos in one sitting. But you know what? We earned it.<\/span><\/div>\n
And sometimes, yeah, we finish two medium pies and some cheesy bread from Dominos in one sitting. But you know what? We earned it.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wife: Dave, did you bring the twins to Karate practice?<\/em>
Dave: No, honey, the game\u2019s on! I gave them the keys to the car. They can drive themselves.<\/em>
Wife: Dave, they\u2019re ten years old.<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n 4. We\u2019re horny.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Dave: No, honey, the game\u2019s on! I gave them the keys to the car. They can drive themselves.<\/em>
Wife: Dave, they\u2019re ten years old.<\/em>
(Laugh Track)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
4. We\u2019re horny.<\/strong><\/h2>\nThis is possibly the most classic stereotype, purveyed by almost every TV show and movie that focuses on men.\u00a0And I\u2019m not going to lie here\u2026we are. We still have the intrinsic programming handed down from our primitive ancestors to constantly search for viable mates in order to contribute to the development of the species.\u00a0But you know what else we have?\u00a0Empathy. Civility. Algebra. And a handful of other things that the apes just haven\u2019t figured out yet. And we can (and DO) use those things to moderate our behavior, because we\u2019re freaking human beings.
Our eyes might wander without our permission, but our hands don\u2019t.
To propagate the stereotype that men are slaves to their penises is no better than propagating the stereotype that women are slaves to their emotions.<\/span><\/div>\nPop culture is saturated with these stereotypes. You might even see traces of them in real life, BUT it\u2019s up to us to work against them with everything we do, lest we be doomed to live life like clowns in a 3-walled living room with a live studio audience.<\/span><\/div>\nGirlfriend\/Boyfriend: \u201cAnd that\u2019s a BUT we can all get behind.\u201d<\/em>
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Our eyes might wander without our permission, but our hands don\u2019t.
To propagate the stereotype that men are slaves to their penises is no better than propagating the stereotype that women are slaves to their emotions.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pop culture is saturated with these stereotypes. You might even see traces of them in real life, BUT it\u2019s up to us to work against them with everything we do, lest we be doomed to live life like clowns in a 3-walled living room with a live studio audience.<\/span><\/div>\n
Girlfriend\/Boyfriend: \u201cAnd that\u2019s a BUT we can all get behind.\u201d<\/em>
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