Masculinity By Copper Thompson Summary

I believe the author’s message is that masculinity is a key factor in a young man’s life and masculinity shapes their life. The author heavily inflicts the importunacy of incorporating masculinity into his reading. The author, Copper Thompson, suggests that violence maintains the two most critical socializing forces in a boy’s life. He also suggests that society advocates violence. I agree society definitely enforces physical violence, to an extent. Sports, movies etc. promotes violence as competiveness, toughness, aggressiveness and power.

The author suggests the cost of the traditional view of masculinity are damaging. He mentions that some are willing to go above and beyond to exhibit their masculinity and later paying for it. I agree the traditional view of masculinity comes at a cost. Masculinity could cause a great deal of stress, competiveness, physical injury or even death.
He goes off by saying males should be more companionate and gentle. I totally agree with the author that cherishing our lives for the sake of our wholeness is would promote more peace rather than resorting to violence.

He goes off by saying males should be more companionate and gentle. Becoming more open-minded, caring, communicative, understanding and expressing emotion, using words instead of resulting in violence are one of the few many examples given. My take on this is yes, those are powerful teachings that could help ameliorate our traditional masculinity for the better good.

Copper Thompson’s section on “Boys being Boys” suggests to the readers that what if that traditional barrier was broken, how things would go about. I agree that boys that express their feelings and thoughts out tend to not resolve into violence.

Text: (Holy Bible), World: (Gandhi), Self: