Now knowing the description, we can now also ask the questions, does hyper masculinity lead to sexual assault? Is the stereo type even true?
Many agree that both of these questions are true. For reasons such as this; in sports, males specifically are able to release a large majority of their testosterone, aggressive emotion, and other violent traits. This can lead to hyper masculinity. Actions such as these can bring out the raw male stereo type, which in turn also can lead to homophobia in sports as well.
What about outside of sports/work environments? Not all people who are considered to be hyper masculine are large sports players - they can range in any size.
Statistics from 2009 show that 1 in 5 women have the chance to be sexually assaulted in some form before they graduate post secondary. Most of these women are sedated from alcohol, ketamine, or some other drug; most of the time this would happen in a partying area, such as a college or high school party.
What causes the majority of males to do this, though? The media most likely has a very well played roll in this question.
If we take a look at various movies for produced by Disney, for example, it gives us an excellent look at how the male hero character in the movie always rises above and gets some sort of prize - most likely a gorgeous princess. Young boys grow up watching this, letting it subconsciously sink into their heads.
Therefor, when they grow older and produce the hyper masculinity trait, they too feel as if they deserve the princess.
Certain thoughts can obviously lead to aggressive actions and sexual assault. This of course could be changed, or at least lower the risk of sexual assault by quite a chunk if we educated our children on sexual assault at an early age, instead of letting television teach them right and wrong.
We cannot only push this topic on women. Men too are sexually assaulted, and while the statistic for male sexual assault is lower than a woman's, they often do not want to tell others, as society does not really choose to accept that males can be sexually assaulted as well.
In the documentary titled 'Sext Up Kids', created by the CBC Doczone, the forty-five minute long presentation does a great job of showing its audience just how the media plays an out of control roll in sexual assault.
The documentary shows us how the media is now using children as models for sex. Toddlers - little girls and boys dressing up in sexual outfits designed for adults.
But it's not just the toddlers being brainwashed. It's the teens as well; on modern television most viewers have access to soft core porn - right on the commercials.
Now we have kids at an early age growing up dressing sexually, acting sexually, and visually embracing a sexual upbringing entirely. And our teenage audience basically watching sex themselves on television, and via pornography.
Another theory would suggest we still have our pre-historic instincts, meaning we take what we want, just like an animal would. Because of doing so, we managed to maintain a population in order to survive.
In conclusion, if you take the social/sexual media and how/what children watch on television and add our prehistoric instincts, it might equal a higher percentage of sexual assault in the near future - unless we can better educate our children on healthy sex, and proper right from wrong.
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