College Masculinity

       For my offline interview I decided to interview my cousin who is an Ohio University Alumni. I interviewed my cousin. He was in a fraternity here at OU and I asked him a few questions about masculinities on this campus. The first question that I asked him was if he thought there was a problem with toxic masculinity around campus when he was going to school here. He answered with the words "not necessarily" which I found very interesting. He said that the people he hung out with and his fraternity didn't have a problem but he said that he saw it in other frats when he was out on the town at the bars. I then asked him if he ever felt like he had to do something because he was expected to do it by other boys in his fraternity and that question he answered easily with a yes. He said he felt he had to drink more or stay out longer if his “buddies” were also doing those things which is like peer pressure. Although I didn't interview her, I feel like it is important t...

As a more personal piece I have interviewed an Ohio University Male student on his opinions on the transfer in expectations of behavior from high school to college. Owen Cox is a 21 year old Public Design/User Experience Major who lives in a house on campus. Coming from a public school in Dayton Ohio he had experience with the “toxic” masculinity of high school by using “gay” as a derogatory term. While we were discussing “cliques” of social settings he mentioned the standards and grouping of people do not change. Although people do learn and try to escape from this culture it forms naturally as common activities/Greek life/sports draw in “clique” behavior. One of my questions was centered around if Owen believed that fraternities have anything to do with part of the generalization of all men with “toxic” masculinity. Owen responds with “Absolutely. I think when you get a bunch of guys, with the same ideals of drinking and aggression that it will just feed those stereotypes. It's h...