The Curious Relationship between Me and The Cigarettes (Part 2)
Cigarettes and Masculinity
The next thing about smoking that I can’t figure it out is the correlation of smoking with the masculinity. What I learnt through the television and the giant billboard on the street is “REAL MAN DOES SMOKE”. Seems like a fag automatically boost men’s power to its maximum level like spinach does to Popaye the sailorman.
Once I heard that actually men are more fragile than women, that is why the rate of domestic violence rate is higher in husband to wife because the husband are often feeling insecure with their position so they torture their wife because they consider their spouse as the subordinate one. Based on that theory, I assume that we, men, need something to hold on that can ensure our position in society and that something to hold on is cigarettes.
This is just my own thought; with the cigarettes men can show their superiority over women, women are considered to be the ones who control house hold expenditure. The women’s role at home is like treasurer in an organization or financial minister in a country, they decide what to buy even though (mostly) the ones who earn that money are the men. By buying trashy thing like cigarette a man can prove that he has huge power to tear the woman’s wall, that prevent the woman to spend the family’s money lavishly to buy things like children’s toys/snacks, down. A housewife can control every penny that flies out of the family saving but she loses control over the money when she must face her husband that ravenously wanting for some fags.
So who is to blame on? Never seen the 1st cigarettes’ ad but if it had cultivated the notion that “a cigarette makes a man man” I think we’ve already known who to blame on. A man is still a man with or without cigarette, aren’t we? .
