When you hear the term “masculinity,” what thoughts come to mind for you?  Are we still raising our boys to become men and what does that mean?  There has seemed to be a negative connotation being masculine, possible when it is defined by dominance, oppression, superiority or even aggressiveness.  In recent decades, the media and other groups have worked to make men almost irrelevant in society.  Television portrays male characters as either buffoons or playboys, and less so as characters to take seriously