The Man Box: The battlefield.

The Man Box: The battlefield.

In the Man Box, women are considered no different than any other objects, the property of men, and of less value than men. The teachings of the Man Box allow violence against women, girls, and other marginalized groups to exist. 

We talk about women’s kitchen and men’s battlefield as a distinct arena. Now, we emphasis on fighting against women’s subjugations to men. We stand to empower women. We are occupied by the men- women world, and we talk lots about gender!

Traditionally, manhood has been considered sacred and gifts from God to the family while a girl child has been never invited in the family circle. A boy child has been celebrated and slowly, doomed in the Man Box but we, men didn’t realize it because we have been busy enjoying over the struggle of women.

Let us forget about the women for now, and reflect on the life of men.

For generations, men have been conditioned to compete for status, forever struggling to rise to the top of a vast Darwinian pyramid framed by a simple but ruthless set of rules. But the men who compete to win in our dominant culture of manhood are collectively doomed to fail because the game itself is rigged against us. Unfortunate it is, God does not gift every man with the same bunch of man-ness. We’re wasting our lives chasing a bogus rabbit around a track, all the while convinced there’s meat to be had but there is no meat. We are meat.

So, the man box refers to the brutal enforcement of a narrowly defined set of traditional rules for being a man. These rules are enforced through shaming and bullying, as well as promises of rewards, the purpose of which is to force conformity to our dominant culture of masculinity (Greene, 2019).

The number one rule of the man box? Don’t show your emotions!

In a man box, men are deprived of natural feelings. Men are suppressed of empathy and are supposed to be powerful and dominating, fearless and in control, strong, emotionless, and successful. And yes, I am talking about MEN. There is no one man in which the Man Box builds who is fearless, dominating, and competitive. There are numerous.

So, eventually, the man box teaches man not to be a man but to put us in the world’s greatest race of competition at the expense of the charms of life from the very moment we are born.

The end result is violence, isolation and stress-related diseases for our fathers, brothers, sons, and husbands, and all those who love them. A world of violence and domination, thus, unfurls. Domination, not only over another man but also over the opposite counterpart, the women.

So, gender inequalities, between men and women, are a result of MAN BOX! Am I right?

let us not just focus on correcting the social and cultural construction about men and women, but also emphasize an amendment of the MAN BOX.

This article is my own work, written for the fulfilment of the academic requirements. Any criticisms are most welcome. 

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