‘Acting like a dick doesn’t make you a man’ ‘Acting like a dick doesn’t make you a man’ is an anti sexual assault campaign aimed at deterring men to engage in sexual activities in order to prove their masculinity. Majority of men take part in sexual activities to prove that they have the capability to fulfill a woman’s sexual desires. Fear is the dominating emotion that propels the behavior of men; the terror of being subjugated, of being viewed as being weak and of being humiliated.
This campaign is aimed at teaching males that engaging in sexual activity isn’t a good way of demonstrating their masculinity (World Health Organization, 2005).. Relationship between gender and violence in the different form of campaigns Relationship between gender and violence in ‘She didn’t want but she couldn’t say no’ campaign She didn’t want to but she couldn’t say no campaign presents how females can stop becoming victims of rape through avoiding drinking. According to Carrington (2006), young females represent the highest growing populace in juvenile justice schemes around the globe.
Young females are highly likely to take part in focal concerns of the street based deviant youth subcultures like selling and consuming drugs. Young females are also have a high probability of being exposed to the low level intragroup aggression of the form that happens between and within other gang members, entailing female to male violence and male to female violence (Roth, 1993). Relationship between gender and violence in ‘My strength is not for hurting’ My strength is not for hurting is focused on engagement of men in prevention of violence against women.
Instead of using their strength to hurt men, men are being urged to use this strength to speak against violence against women. According to Flood (2011), intentional attempts to change involvements of men in gender relationships are highly becoming common around the globe. Such attempts take numerous forms from government initiatives to grassroots mobilizations and are propelled by several agendas from antifeminist to feminist. At grassroots level, there exist pro-parity and antifeminist groups of men dedicating to pushing back the benefits of feminism.
One of the most important attempts to change involvements of men in gender relations focuses on male’s violence against females. Just as My strength is not for hurting campaign advocate for involvement of men in violence prevention, there is increasing accord in violence deterrence circles that in order to terminate this violence, men must be involved and worked with. Whilst males have for a long time been addresses in tertiary and secondary based interventions as executors, they are now being viewed as partners in the prevention of violence.
There are increasing attempts to involve men and boys in several capabilities connected with prevention of aggression against females, as policy makers, gatekeepers, advocates and activists (Flood, 2011). Relationship gender and violence in Acting like a dick doesn’t make you a man’ campaign Acting like a dick doesn’t make you a man campaign demonstrates sexual violence between males. According to Franklin, the surfacing of homosexual as a distinctive social category generated a novel symbol for males to compare themselves against.
Homosexuality is perceived mainly as unusual gender identity, as divergent to sexual attraction and is therefore shorthand for masculine women and effeminate men who rebuffed socially forbidden sex roles. The horror of being branded a fag put pressure upon all males to kowtow to a slight standard of sex behavior. As heterosexuality turned out to be an increasingly fundamental constituent of masculinity identity, young males could display their masculinity via sexual conquest of women and also through public vilification of alleged homosexuals.
Acting like a dick doesn’t make you a man aims at preventing sexual assaults of men by their fellow men.
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