Last week, I watched "A Call To Men" that how men are socialized in the society. We, people, are taught by the society or the nation or even the trend, fashion is called socialization. It is a life course. It never ends until the day we are cut off the pulse and breath. Recently, I read an article from Yahoo! about the relationship between men and women, "Top 5 things that drive men crazy"
http://yahoo.match.com/y/article.aspx?articleid=12468&TrackingID=526103&BannerID=1184536
The top five things it mentioned are men need to create excitement in the relationship, men need to pay everything, men should be able to control themselves really well, “Wanting to know ‘where the relationship is going’ before he’s ready to say, or before he knows himself" and men have to commit in the relationship much more than women. Those things would be or should be privately in a relationship between a man and a woman. However, unfortunately, it has become a society standard or culture to men that request men to do certain things in a relationship. If a man failed to do any of them, he would be get expelled or destroy according to "A Call To Men".
This phenomenon restrains men and burdens on men which is much more than it was used to be. Societal force or peer force is the strongest stress for people, not only to men but also to women. Here, obviously, men are the "victims". Nevertheless, when we take our emotions out, we can see this phenomenon as socialization of how men should behave in a relationship because this is exactly how men learned from the society. When we compare the past and the present, we see the change that is never end, as a demonstration of "life-course" socialization.
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