My research question has to do with the social structure of everyday lives today. I am focusing on the man's life in today's society. I am mainly interested in this research question because I think there are many things that need to be changed about the way a man is viewed or the standard he is put to. Even though there has many advances in the times of today, this patriarchal set of rules passed down has put a cap on the way the man acts in the world today. For me personally as being a man this affects me daily. If even the slightest deviation from the "path," that a man should be on, is taken it is considered unmanly. This prejudice is something that I have witnessed first-hand and is something that is very eye-opening and important to me. As a more artistic man I am very emotional, non-athletic, and also open minded and curious when it comes to many things. To many in society this is referred to as being too feminine. With this primary background knowledge I have done some research to better equip and qualify myself to learn more about this topic and situation of today's time. 

One of the most interesting websites I found was this page named "Psychology of Men." It describes thoroughly the way a man should and should not act in society. This article doesn't necessarily have a claim or any kind of bias. I like this about the article because it gives the cold hard facts of how society wants a man to act and what happens if these rules are not obeyed. So in this article the major interest is contextualizing and identifying unbiasedly the set of rules society has set in place that constrict the man. The author of this article is the Assistant Director of Counseling and Training Services at the University of Portland. He also has a private counseling practice, holds a PhD, and has stated on the website he is researching and planning to start a research program related to masculinity. 

This next article is from a Law Journal at the University of Hawaii. It discusses how sexual harassment against males in the past has been tossed aside and not dealt with in the court system. This has been on the premise that the court goes along with societal values and shrugs off the idea that males can be vulnerable. This law system of the University of Hawaii is trying to change the ideas of how they view and deal with the rules put in place for men. The article has a little bit of bias in the sense that it calls for immediate action in the changing of the way the court system deals with sexual harassment for males. 

The next article I looked into is from TIME Magazine and is called "How to Shake Up Gender Norms." This article discusses how the world views men today and how there is this overlaying patriarchy put in place. Their central claim is that the patriarch needs to be extinguished and there needs to be more equality for all genders across the board. The article is mainly more feminism biased but it still has a lot of good information on the masculine topic. It explains in a different perspective how the man is viewed. I think this can be very advantageous to my argument; because, even though it is bias to the female perspective it gives an opinion of how the man is viewed by the female. The author is a woman named Elizabeth Weingarten. She is a journalist for TIME Magazine and has written articles for many other news magazines. It is also brought up in this article about how a long time ago Freud put in place a theory that deemed the body parts determine success. 

I definitely think my research question is arguable because it affect everyone as a whole and it is a recent issue. Every day there are people getting bullied, stereotyped, and mentally beaten down; just because, they are a little different then what society tells them they have to be. The sources I've found so far have been for the most part on board about trying to destroy the idea of gender being a stereotype and something used against people. Although, a lot of the sources don't quite know how to go about contextualizing the specific ways the stereotype works. Many of these sources support my own opinions on the topic. Although the article from TIME Magazine gives me a whole other outlook being from a feminine point of view. I feel like I might need to revise my research question and make it more specific and try to break my topic down and better theorize a solution. 
