The theme of masculinity that was assigned to me was aggressiveness. Masculinity is a theme that represents willingness to take physical risks and become violent if necessary, to have access to something or to get something that they can’t get without being tough. In most cases, masculinity would always get comments like “don’t be feminine, be tough, gain power”. I picked tom in tom and jerry since it is a perfect example of someone aggressive.
Tom and Jerry was an animated series created in 1940 during the golden age of American animation, which started in 1928. Tom and Jerry is based on a slapstick comedy. Tom in this series represents aggressiveness since he would always use power whenever he would get pissed by jerry. Tom wouldn’t be able to catch jerry so he would get upset whenever he sees him again and the only thing, he had in mind was to use force and power to catch him but he would never be able so he would always try again and again. Masculinity is the same thing, once u can use power, you always want to use it since you that you can get way more with power.
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