The Secret Life of an American Teenager finale

During the season finale, Amy finally has her baby. While Ricky, the baby's father, waited in the waiting room, he starts to get apprehensive and anxious. When he first sees the baby, he refuses to hold it. This shows how Ricky was in shock and frightened. Throughout the season, Ricky wanted to keep the baby and not put him up for adoption. However, while he waited, he questioned his ability to be a father. This displays the idea that even men get scared in life. They are not always confident and fearless like most people think when they hear the word masculinity. When Ricky finally holds the baby, his face changes completely. He looks happy and proud. At the end of the show, all of their friends went back to school. Amy stayed home in bed, and the final scene shows Ricky in the room with her holding their child. Ricky proves that he is going to stick by Amy's side and not neglect her or the baby. Men should be committed to their family and willing to support them. This goes along with the idea that the man of the house brings in most of the income and protects his family.

Taken

In the movie, Taken, an over protective dad searches to find his seventeen-year-old daughter. Against his will, he allows his daughter to travel to Europe with a friend. While talking to her on the phone, he hears her get kidnapped. He flies to Europe immediately to try to save her. He finds out that she has been used for human trafficking. Throughout the movie, he represents bravery and determination. He is the ideal masculine father who would do anything for his daughter. He fights many men and uses his experience with criminals to find his daughter. It was one man against many men, and he retrieves his daughter at the end of the movie.

Reba

During an episode of Reba, Reba's son Jake wants to try out for the football team to spend time with his dad. However, Jake is known as a "momma's boy." He is afraid of someone hitting him, and during his first football practice, he curled up into the fetal position. At the beginning of this episode, Jake has feminine qualities. For example, he would rather sew, and he was not aggressive on the field. Therefore, his brother-in-law, Van, trained him. As a result, in Jake's football try outs, he got banned from the team from being too aggressive. He would run and knock everyone to the ground. This shows his transformation into being more masculine. He was no longer afraid of being hit and proved his strength to everyone on the team and in his family.