Man Up!“Man Up!” with a powerful voice said from my father. That's what I initially felt when I was on day one and needed to show up at daycare. There is no exception that men are taught not to fear anything from the day they are born. As young men grow up, they generally learn and integrate into a box of codes that shows them how to be a man, known as the Guy Code. The Guy Code is a set of rules enforced predominantly among male groups about how a man behaves with other men and with your girlfriend. It mainly teaches boys to be dominated, aggressive and inadequate. In Michael Kimmel's "Bros Before Hos: The Guy Code", he indicates that men mask their emotions and inner selves to be especially like a man. It forces the awareness that shyness is not a characteristic that men should have. To prove themselves, men usually attempt unhealthy and destructive acts to act out their courage and fearlessness, but these actions are prone to suicide and various other types of out-of-control or untouchable behaviors. Michael Kimmel states that “men between the ages of nineteen and twenty-nine are three times less likely to wear seat belts than women of the same age” (Kimmel 468). Mr. Kimmel cited one data point to argue that young people view safe driving as emasculation. As long as men drive a car, using the seat bell means they are afraid of getting hurt or dying. Besides that, it also represents that this man cannot fully control his car; on the other hand, it is not masculine. Additionally, men have a propensity for violence. In Joan Morgan's "From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos," she specifically discusses macho behaviors among African Americans. He wrote that “When brothers can talk so contemptuously about killing each other and then reveal that they don't expect to see their twenty-first birthday, that is downright depression masquerading as machismo” (Morgan 456). As a result of reckless and brutal actions, black men are more easily motivated to act out their machismo by killing each other. Obviously a situation arises that, due to the suggestion and guidance of the pit man, the concept of intrepidity and courage has been distorted. Masculinity in the minds of these men represents the will to die as long as they have expressed no
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