ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the men's understanding of men and their performance of masculinity towards each other to how men perceive women and how such perceptions affect their masculine performance. Despite having ambiguous feelings about women's emotions in relation to themselves, men did express appreciation of women's emotional support. A focus on female beauty and the commercial promotion of female domesticity in the media were also seen as problem areas for women. George noted that women had some success, especially in politics, TV presenting and journalism, where he criticised some women for 'only writing articles for women' and not for a 'neutral' audience. In many instances the men only responded with physical descriptions of potential partners when prompted. Some men were critical of their position with reference to women's beauty when it formed part of a commercial/media product. Most men interviewed who had experienced unwanted or coerced sex did not frame their experiences within a discourse of victimhood.
