> On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 schwaja3@wfu.edu wrote:
>
> > I am writing my paper on rape and domestic violence from an interactionist
> > perspective and it is clear that men's roles are defined as well. "Masculinity"
> > is one of the major reasons that men beat their wives or rape their girlfriends.
> > Sad, but true.
> >
> So the question remains....Can we change the way roles are defined? I
> mean rapid changes of the construction of roles. How can this be done?
> betsy
while i dont believe we can make any rapid changes in the construction of
roles, i do believe that we can advocate other ways in which to define
masculinity. i feel the construct of masculinity is a lot like racism- it
will always exist but there are ways in which to "open eyes" abt the
harms of each of these constructs
iisha