Topic > Essay on Devaluation of Gender Role - 1304

A very unique example of the male gender role is the popular social networking app Tinder. While intentionally designed to simply bring singles in the area together to socialize and possibly develop relationships, Tinder has taken on an increasingly sexual undertone. What started as a social networking tool, has now become a glorified booty call app. However, in an article devoted to the process by which boys learn to be men, Dr. Jackson Katz characterizes this generation as having grown up “in a society that, in many ways, glorifies sexually aggressive masculinity and considers degradation and objectification of women” (Minnesota Fathers & Families Network, 2007). In other words, the aggressive sexual behavior exemplified on the Tinder app is becoming more and more normal. Katz goes on to explain that today's youth will consider it normal that “sex is what makes you more of a man” (2007). With such an emphasis on sex, Tinder will represent another way for college-age males to achieve this increasingly normal definition of masculinity. Another example, and probably the closest to mine, is the television series Blue Mountain State. The show follows three new football players attending Midwestern University who must learn quickly