C‘It is very much to reflect on what the male reference points are today in the research New models of masculinitycarried out by Ipsos on a sample of 800 individuals, between males and females, between 16 and 24 years oldfor the Interuniversity Research Center Culture of Gender Cultures, which collects all Milanese universities.
The analysis, presented to Time of womenbetween 12 and 14 September Last, it is truly a mine of ideas. For example, the opinions expressed on what are the current male models have impressed me very much. In particular, The boys, in comparing themselves to the young people of the generation of their grandparents and fathers, judge themselves, mostly, worse. Opinion, however, shared by the girls. The level of young males seems insufficient especially in the comparison with grandparents, which are very idealized.
We take into account that The gen Z is among the first to be able to enjoy long -lived grandparents and fitgiven the elongation rate of life and the attitude of the current ultrasexance to cure themselves. Grandparents who have little of austerity and obsession with the rules, proper to the 1968 revolution. So far, as they said, boys and girls converge.
Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
But here the opinions differ when the question becomes: “Your father is your ideal man model?”. For 59 percent of males the answer is “very” or “enough”. Half of the females “little” or for “nothing”, which is a significant figure, given that 8 percent do not know, and the “in love” of dad, therefore, remain equal to 13 percent (“a lot”), limiting themselves 29 percent to the “enough” response.
What is not to convince girls is not explained. But I got an idea, reading elsewhere, as young males are still remained to consider housework by their competence; As they believe they are able to listen and apologize, while for girls they are not at all. And how important it is for males to earn more than the partner and manage family finances.
I struggle not to believe that they learned these beautiful family models, seeing them practiced by dads, perhaps with the tacit consent of mothers still too cared for.
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