Role Reversals: Why Men Could Be The New Image of Femininity

We now live in an era where women have taken more leadership roles than our predecessors. With that being said, is it possible for women to have taken on more of a “masculine role” and men a more “feminine” role when it comes to dating and relationships?

I’m sure you all have had your fair share of “spoiled emasculated men” whose personality traits are feminine like than yours. There’s possibly a number of reasons as to why there’s more emasculated men, however I am only going to focus on a few.

For one thing, there are more single mothers raising their sons alone without any support. It is very true that a single mother works hard in being a provider, parent and counselor for her son, however in the meanwhile the child is not being exposed to positive male figures. Bitterness or ill feelings towards the men in their past causes the mother to raise her son to be like a miniature boyfriend, teaching him to behave and do things that she would have wanted in a mate. The mother could also overcompensate for the father’s absence by spoiling her son, thus causing him to have a false sense of entitlement. I’m not criticizing single mothers; I applaud their efforts in raising their sons in a society that expects them to fail.

There are also some exceptions where the boys grow up to be successful, positive male role models, but they were exceptions due to having a consistent, positive male figure (uncles, grandfather, mentor) in their life.

Although there is nothing that can be done about spoiled emasculated men (only he can decide whether or not he wants to grow and mature). My suggestion would be to not deal with them unless you want to suffer from G.W.S. (Good Woman Syndrome-see prior post). What can be changed is that single mothers could expose their sons to some consistent, positive male figures. If you don’t have any positive male relatives, put your son(s) in the Boys & Girls Club, a Big Brothers program, or if your son(s) show interest—- a sports team (he would have at least one positive male figure i.e. the coach). The emergence of spoiled emasculated men may be prevalent today, but this does not have to be the determinant of what is to be for future generations if we help our boys and show them that there are strong, positive male figures. By making this a collaborative effort there would be less spoiled emasculated men and more positive and responsible adults.