This month on the What Kind of Man Do You Want to Be Google Hangout, the conversation is about the image of a real man and how societal and media masculine standards perpetuates male stereotyping.
Marie Roker-Jones from Raising Great Men will be joined by radio personality and writer Dr. Vibe to discuss how hyper-masculinity and media stereotypes of men influence young men’s thoughts on manhood.
Panelists for the first half of the discussion at 8:00pm EST on September 18th are Enrique Pascal, author of What Does A Real MAN Look Like? and host of Transformation Radio and Alan Bishop, founder of The 365 Effect, producer and creator several television shows .
At 9:00pm EST, also on September 18th, Marie and Dr Vibe will be joined by three young men: Edmund Adjapong, Rey Saint-Vil and Alex Hanse to discuss how media messages have shaped their views on men.
To learn more about the hangout or to join in, see the invitation page on Google+.
Follow Dr. Vibe and Marie Roker-Jones on Twitter for more information.
I think the focus of the discussion,the media’s contribution to the maintenance of hypermasculine culture,fatally limits the discussion.Implicit in the media focused discussion is the unchallenged belief that the media is the primary culprit in maintaining hypermasculine culture.This is not true,even in the slightest.Hypermasculine culture predates the media by thousands of years. America is a hyperculine culture.How else could a place-men AND women- with only 5% of the world’s population dominate the world?This conversation deserves meaningful self reflection.