Toxic Masculinity Practice Portrayed in Children’s Growth at Senior High School in Malang

Anisa Zuhria Sugeha (Merdeka University of Malang)
Alfaratna Septi Nurlaily (Airlangga University)

Journal of Language and Literature
Vol 9 No 2 (2023): Humanitatis: Journal of Language and Literature

In Indonesia, there are a lot of parents who still perpetuate the patriarchal system in parenting methods to raise their children, especially for boys. Moreover, East Java Province is one of the provinces that still present this parenting method because most parents believe males are superior to females. The researcher used male students in Senior High Schools as the respondents due to the patriarchal system in that environment. Social Practice was selected to analyze how the patriarchal system influenced the male students' characters. Those bad habits from the patriarchal system could establish toxic masculinity for most male students because the elders can not give space on how to differentiate what is masculinity and what is the good and the harmful impacts to them.