We have a habit of recycling the same form of masculinity throughout our culture, one that embodies independence, dominance, strength, assertiveness, often to the extreme, and downplays other characteristics that are positive like intelligence, sensitivity, resilience, or awareness.
Douglas Robins
About Douglas Robins
Douglas Robins is a high school senior and activist who is determined to leave the world a better place. He has been working on an independent research project called “The Great Set-Up: An Examination of Regressive Masculinity in a Progressive World through Pop Culture and an Expansion of What it Means to be a Man” that has been accepted for presentation at the Popular Culture Association Conference in Washington, D.C., in April 2019, among other academic conferences. In addition to work on this project, he is passionate about fixing the broken health care system, specifically long-term nursing care. Although both of these areas seem unrelated, Douglas is passionate about them both because he sees the overlap: both involve advocacy for others to live their lives to their fullest potential.