“…This argument calls into question the complex processes through which men are socialized to invest in certain emotions, feelings, values, and behaviors (Adomako Ampofo & Boateng, 2007; Mathews, Jewkes, & Abrahams, 2011; Ratele, 2013; Shefer et al, 2015). These values, norms, and behaviors are further enabled by a variety of countervailing patriarchal forces through which particular types of gender expression are considered appropriate and welcomed, and other types are repudiated (Dery, Fiaveh, & Apusigah, 2019; Ratele, 2013). Through masculine gender socialization, most men tend to believe that to be a “man” is to have access to greater cultural, social, economic, political, and symbolic power (Chant, 2000; Mathews et al, 2011; Ratele, 2013; Shefer et al, 2015).…”