College Men Through Society's Lenses By Mo Felton

https://www.wiley.com/enus/College+Men+and+Masculinities%3A+Theory%2C+Research%2C+and+Implications+for+Practice+-p-9780470448427

    “College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice” (2010) by Shaun R. Harper and rank Harris III follows the effects of masculinity on college men. While written 12 years ago, I strongly believe this book holds an accurate representation of our current issues with masculinity. Similarly to Pascoe (2007), this book focuses on how men feed off of each other to grow these harmful stereotypes against themselves in a battle to see who’s more “masculine”. Harper and Harris (2010) define college men portrayed as, “drunken, promiscuous, academically disengaged lovers of pornography, sports, and video games who rape women, physically assault each other, vandalize buildings on campus, and dangerously risk their lives pledging sexist, racially exclusive, homophobic fraternities” (p. 10). As sad as it is, It’s easy to apply all of these points to male students at Ohio University. Obviously it doesn’t apply to all of them, but any one of us can easily think of someone we know who lines up with Harper and Harris’s (2010) definition. Universities cope with this behavior and tell women how to avoid these types of men rather than promoting educational experiences to fix their mindsets.