Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 2, 2018 1:53:34 GMT
I can't open the link to read the article, but how does one define what is a 'real' man anyway?
An answer, of sorts, to your (rhetorical?) question. Now, as to the OP's (deliberately provocative?) question: if a man can't be a "real" man and still carry babies (or diaper them or push them in strollers), then he's not a "real" man I particularly care to associate with.
Gender roles can be forced by expectations of society and what a men is supposed to represent and what a female is supposed to represent. I am not quite sure what Jackson's 'real' stance is on the issue, but it appears within the song that the image of the male suddenly changes to become a parody of what it was once 'supposed' to represent and image of macho is also an ideal therefore a fallacy. Is Jackson straight? If so, that would also give him a different perspective on what maleness is supposed to represent and any bias or prejudice can't be helped.
The question can't be answered as an absolute and that was my point. The genitals only represent the gender\sex—these are the same as far as I'm concerned—of the human, any other attributes that then come associated with the person are variable and capricious in nature.
Men cannot carry babies due to their biology, but a man that takes responsibility for the children he has fathered—which most men appear to do—is not the issue, but with the many women that make poor choices with some of the men they choose to get with.