The true of manhood

Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/times-of-india-mahood-definition-ad-respect-women_n_2583588.html#slide=more265848

              "The true test of your manhood is how you treat a woman. All women. Any woman. Every woman," the quarter-page advertisement read. When you think about masculinity, probably you would associate it with power or physical futures. The Indian newspaper printed an advertisement asking men to respect women because more and more women suffer from men’s violence in India. Some campaigns were also created by the police department or non-profit organization in order to eradicate rape culture. They are calling for men to act like good human beings, not act like real men associated with power. However, because of the high value placed on a bride’s virginity and the dangers to a girl’s future if there is a taint on her honor, rape is often not reported, and the men who rape are counting on this reticence to go public. The problem of rape is in part the problem of a highly unequal society where women are low status and often somewhat segregated and disadvantaged. 

Kimmel and Messner (2007) say that some men make use of certain crimes like violence or rape to construct various public and private masculinities within particular social situations: the street, the workplace, and the family. They take their male privilege for granted and misunderstand what they can be accepted to do as ‘real’ men. The cultural ideals of hegemonic masculinity are framed through social structures. In addition to that, in this case, classism is also relevant to the violence. Many women in bottom of the hierarchy suffer from rapes by men in top of one under Caste, a form of social stratification. Although it would take a long time to change the notion or the idea toward women in the society under the context, people and government should strive to abolish those violence by countermeasures.