Why are men becoming increasingly feminine with time?

Answer 1

In every culture - values change. But, not all cultural values change in every culture. I would say the values of the culture you live in have changed, since increasingly feminine men are accepted, and in some cases share the spot lights with those men who still have masculine traits. I am the least qualified to answer Gender & Women's Studies questions - but I thought I ought to go out on a limb and answer this question.

By the same token, the cultural values have changed and now it is easy to see the women with increasingly masculine features in the very same spot lights.

Thanks for the thumbs down, I always take those as compliments because they usually come from those whose answers lack even more substance than mine do. Touche!

Answer 2

They get better with age.

Edit: I think men were pressured to act like they had no emotions, had to work themselves to death to prove themselves, and couldn't allow themselves to be close to anyone. I think as they've aged, more men find out what really counts is not how little emotion you show, but how much you show, towards the people you love.

You make it sound like having traditionally feminine qualities is bad. Your loss. I think we're human, there aren't just "feminine" and masculine qualities. We're a mixture of *human* qualities.

Answer 3

First of all, the Y chromosome losing genes, something happening over THOUSANDS of years, not within a few generations, has NOTHING to do with how masculine a man is, because just about every single gene for "man stuff" is on other chromosomes, including X. The SRT gene on the Y chromosome merely makes these genes active as opposed to being inactive, as is the case for women.

Now, there has been a slow shift as to what masculinity is. In this day and age, killing buffalo is simply not an important skill. Brains are slowly taking over brawn, though now we are still in some sort of a transition. Still, masculinity will never die, it will simply shift from physical capability to intellectual capability. I mean of course in a broad sense; making a killing on the stock market is just as intellectual of an endeavor as solving some math equation.

Answer 4

America has a serious problem with lack of testosterone. It's a health problem caused mostly by red meat that is filed with hormones and additives that got fed to the cows to grow bigger, humans eat that and testosterone levels plumet (in both men and women).

In europe where meat containing such additives is forbidden testosterone levels are higher.

Answer 5

Because women in society are emasculating them....instead of embracing what makes a man a man, we are insisting that they act differently in the hopes that it will somehow equalize things between the genders...it's our own fault....

Also, increasingly there are single women bringing up boys, and frankly most women have no idea how to raise a boy to be a man because they really don't understand what it takes and boys need male rolemodels

Answer 6

Because the metrosexual man is what is currently "in vogue" at the moment. Naturally, men will try to emulate that.

It could also be because the Y chromosome is getting weaker with time. (I really doubt this one, I just threw it out as a suggestion).

Answer 7

Post-feminists society where men are raised by single mothers.
Its mostly dysfunctional families, children need two parents: mother (feminine) and father (masculine)

Answer 8

They are not down my way
Us blokes are decent sorts, treat women with respect
But if we are attacked we tend to have a serrious discussion with the perps
What this means if us or our family are insulted or attacked we attack back
We have no time for lovley boys

Answer 9

i think... culture change from seconds to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days,days to weeks and whatever our generation right know is already new.People like to discover more than they could be that is why many people are like that... they are just expressing what they want. it is their idea or just being influenced by other citizens to be like that but at the last, they are still their selves it is their will to change or not.

Answer 10

It does seem that way. The culture is changing and the pressures on men to not be masculine are growing stronger.