For thousands of years we have seen men in society as stereotypical, dominant, strong, and aggressive creatures. Men showing emotions have been stigmatised. There is also an image of men being portrayed as harder workers and being tougher than women. This ideology is very offensive and degrading to women and is also a very negative approach to the definition of masculinity.
The movie, ‘Billy Elliot’ is a classic example of this. It shows a great example of how society and our families can put a great deal of pressure on men to be strong, masculine and unemotional creatures, thus forcing male stereotypes on them; And how that tends to develop into toxic masculinity.
‘Billy Elliot’ is a British drama film written by Lee Hall in the year 2000. The entire movie is set in a fictional town named Everington in the United Kingdom, County Durham during the coal miners strike in the middle of the 1980's.
The language in Billy Elliot reflects a very specific culture and moment in time. The dialect is Northern English, where most of the words sound swallowed up and it’s mostly spoken amongst the working class. Swearing in the movie is often used to capture certain emotions and informality of speech and is not meant to specifically cause offence. It is firmly in a British tradition which allows more robust language into its drama.
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