Society has created two genders: one of male in blue and one of female in pink.  The male persona must constantly prove and uphold himself in order to hold onto the blue color and not fall into the pink causing him potential of homosexuality, wussy, and weak stigmas..  Male tends to equal masculinity in post-modern United States society.  Masculinity then equates with strength, dominance, control, and violence.  It is almost as if men are forced into a little box that makes them put on a disguise of toughness for everyone in society to see.  At times, proof of a real man is showing violence and the threat of violence upon weaker men who tread outside the box.  This offers a fear of consequences to men pursuing greener pastures.

Men over the past couple of decades have been taught to take up more space with muscle. This picture is a symbolic look at how masculinity and muscle are related.  Another typical male is Arnold.  Men have been taught to have muscle and to use their muscles.  This use is often violence where men do not want to be considered outside their masculine box and will beat on everything outside that box  that doesn't coincide with society's norms.  Outside of this box is what is considered weak males and females.  Therefore, a female makes an interesting target for proving dominance over the opposite sex and keeping one's manhood.  Masculinity is affiliated to true power and that is shown in movies such as Rambo.  This power includes beating up and killing others.  Another example is Rocky.  Here a white working class male proves his manhood by beating a black heavyweight champion.  In this story white males in the 1970s felt they had to beat up black males who are taking their power.  The story leads the black male to go hyper masculine and draws upon the Italian mobster stereotypical strengths.  This is only to be plastered all over MTV in gangster look and lyrics to be imitated by white males such as Slim Shady who talks about hurting his mom and girlfriend in many of his songs such as "Stan".