When boys are brought up they are taught to show no emotion, any feminine trait they have is looked down upon. This makes it so they bottle up their selves and grow up to be only half the person they truly are. Its unfair that a little boy who cries when hes upset is called a "sissy" or "crybaby" but a girl is allowed to cry at any age and isn't ridicueled for it. My photo is simple but the message is clear. The larger image of the boy has no emotion on his face, looking directly at you. The greyness of the background and himself shows how emotionless he really is. As for what hes holding its a wine box with a bottle shape. I left the color of the box and the smaller self of the boy. This represents the emotion hes bottling up and keeping in that box. No matter how much boys like to hide and act emotionless. They still carry their emotions with them they just keep it bottled up as a disguise from the world. I have the smaller self image looking up at the larger image. This has shows self disappointment, curiosity, and self conflict. Why is he bottling his emotions off? Why is he following the gender role? Why can't he show emotion? This picture to me relates to a lot of real life friends I have, including my self. When raising boys we teach them not to show emotion. This is one reason why most sexual offenders are probably male. When teaching someone to be emotionless, they wont feel remorse for doing anything wrong. They grow up wearing a disguise acting like nothing is wrong because they are scared they will be attacked by their peers. So all we do is carry around bottles we hide from the world behind a role we are taught to play.
3 comments:
This picture is very powerful. I love how the man in the bottle tells a story on how any man could feel as if he was being trapped in his emotions on the inside. The black and white background could also represent how most men are raised to act the same way, no uniqueness, just living in the status quo of masculinity. I also like how sexual assault and rape were brought up in the description. I feel as if you would have to be raised emotionless to commit such acts.
This picture is very powerful. I love how the man in the bottle tells a story on how any man could feel as if he was being trapped in his emotions on the inside. The black and white background could also represent how most men are raised to act the same way, no uniqueness, just living in the status quo of masculinity. I also like how sexual assault and rape were brought up in the description. I feel as if you would have to be raised emotionless to commit such acts.
This picture is a bit sad to me but of course very true. I also see how it relates to class. From what Gabbi mentioned, it almost sounds to me as if she was describing self-perpetuating stereotypes. I also see correlation to the social role theory and the prescriptive ideal of "how men should and ought to act" (Rudman and Glick 18-19;22). On a more personal note, no one should tell anyone how to feel or how to express their emotions, unless, of course, if it is harmful to themselves or others. Any person who bottles emotions are or could be at risk for an out burst of negative actions such as misdirected anger or even violent, angry out bursts. Humans, male or female, who tend to stuff their emotions are not allowing themselves to feel the freedom of emotional burden. These people are in their own prison because of societal influences. A very sad, and probably unchanging truth.
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