Publication Date
4-2025
School
School of Communication
Major
Business Administration
Keywords
emasculation, television, manliness, media forums, feminism
Disciplines
Communication | Communication Technology and New Media | Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication | Mass Communication | Social Influence and Political Communication | Social Media
Recommended Citation
Sexton, Skylar G., "A Rhetorical Analysis of the Emasculation of Men Through Televised Forums of Entertainment" (2025). Senior Honors Theses. 1486.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/honors/1486
Abstract
What constitutes manliness stands on the brink of collapse. Society wages war on the idea of biological men and women. This simultaneously blurs the lines of the distinctive characteristics that define a man such as initiative, protective instincts, self-control, and leadership. Media forums act as a reflection as well as an influencing medium for a cultural body. Films have fundamentally changed their depiction of men in television since the 1960s and 1970s. Manliness is being redefined through films' depictions of a man, as well as by societal movements such as feminism. Men are being emasculated in society today, which is depicted and therefore enforced in the consumption of television series, films, and commercials.
Included in
Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Social Influence and Political Communication Commons, Social Media Commons
