In society today women aren't the only ones who have to live up to tough standards of being considered "sexy," but men are as well. In class, the survey we took shows that muscles and being athelitic or having an atheletic body are the top to things that make a man manly. I personally did write both of these things down. When considering what's sexy or manly, of course someone is going to put their perferred physical appearances. In being considered manly, I do not think you have to be huge and muscular, or play sports. For some men it is harder to attain those muscular six pack abs and be naturally gifted with sports. On the survey, confidence was voted number three. I may not think you need muscles or have to play sports to be manly, but I do think confidence is very important in being considered a man. Without confidence, you wouldn't be able to do anything such as: get a job, be able to have a family, or even talk to many people in general. Pretty much all in all our society determines whether someone is sexy or manly by physical apperance which is unfortunate but it is what it is.
So, if a man is shy, he's no longer a man?
ReplyDeleteyou contradicted yourself in your blog. You said you DID write down muscles and sports as your answers. Then a couple of lines later you wrote that those qualities do not matter to you. In my opinion, they do matter to you or you wouldn't have wrote them on the survey we took. I dont think women want to be seen as superficial any more then men do. Everyone wrote exactly what they felt only because we didnt have to put our names on it. If we did have to put our names on it, i think the answers would be a helluva lot different.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the idea of some confidence offsetting a possible lack of muscle or athleticism. I thought about it a little and realize the biggest ladies men I know aren't even 160 pounds. They just happen to have a little swagger goin for em.
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