Boys don't cry: Urgent call for alternative approaches in exploring Indonesian men's experience in romantic relationship

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https://doi.org/10.24854/jpu712

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culturally-informed approach, manhood, masculinity, romantic relationship

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Academic discourses around interpersonal relationship in the patriarchal culture tends to assume men in the superior position, hence their unique experience is considered less significant to be investigated. As a result, what we know about men’s experience and expectation in a romantic relationship is only as far as what their gender stereotype subscribes; that relationship is only for sex, status and power exercise, and social symbol. In the present editorial note, I emphasize the urgency to utilize an alternative approach in exploring unique experience of Indonesian men in romance; such insight would be valuable to improve the quality of interpersonal relationship through culturally-informed perspective.

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2022-11-30

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Himawan, K. K. (2022). Boys don’t cry: Urgent call for alternative approaches in exploring Indonesian men’s experience in romantic relationship. Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat, 9(2), 204–207. https://doi.org/10.24854/jpu712

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