American Masculinity

The website I have chosen is Men Can Stop Rape www.mencanstoprape.org
This is an organisation working to get men to use their strength to create a culture free from violence – particularly men’s violence against women. They say they are trying to redefine masculinity – to encourage men to use their strength in more positive ways. The program is aimed at younger men (particularly college students).
This organisation seem to be challenging the very traditional views of masculinity and asking men to rethink their relationships with women but there is limited information to see how they are doing this. If the work they do can reduce the amount of violence against women then that can only be a good thing but it will be a difficult thing to change the long held view of many men that it is not ‘manly’ to discuss feelings – especially with other men.