My research question has to do with the social structure of everyday lives. 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/ the standard he is asked to live up to. Even though there have been many advances in society with many controversial issues and equality, society has passed down through the generations these "patriarchal" set of rules to control the way the man acts. For me as being a man this affects me daily. If even the slightest deviation from the narrow "path" that man is told to walk he is considered unmanly. This path is the set of rules and guidelines that society puts in place for men to keep them as manly as society thinks men should be. This prejudice is something that I have witnessed first-hand and is something that is very eye-opening and important to me. With being gay it is seen as unmanly and/or like I am unworthy of the benefits of being a man. I am also very active in the arts and hope to make a life career in the arts. This can be seen as unmanly since it is more of a "feminine thing" and not a heteronormative career like mechanic or doctor. 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 called the "Psychology of Men." It describes thoroughly the way a man should and should not act in society. The article gives cold hard facts of how society wants a man to act and what happens if these rules are not obeyed. 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 is due to the court going along with societal values and shrugging off the idea that men can be vulnerable. They see men as the strong people and it's not possible for any kind of sexual discrimination to happen to them. The law system at the University of Hawaii is trying to change the ideas of how they view and deal with rules put in place for men. The article has a little bit of bias because it calls for the immediate action of the changing of the way the court system deals with sexual harassment of males. 

The next article I looked into is from TIME magazine and is called "How to Shake Up Gender Norms." The author is a woman named Elizabeth Weingarten. 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. It explains in a different perspective how the man is viewed. They also claim how Freud first stated anatomy is the key factor of gender identity and how you are viewed. I think this can be very advantageous to my argument because it not only goes into the back story of gender identity it also gives a more feminine side to the story that speaks about men and society. 

I definitely think my research question is arguable because it affects everyone as a whoe 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 should be. The sources I've 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 more feminine point of view. I feel like I might need to revise my research questions and make it more specific and try to break my topic down and better theorize a solution. 
