How would you say James Dean influenced negative masculinity?

Rebel Without A Cause is essentially a sociological case study in American masculinity—its attractions, its limitations, its pathologies, its postures, and its obstacles. The plot of the film essentially traces Jim's desire as a teenage boy to become a respectable man, despite the fact that he seems to lack a suitable role model for doing so. Jim's father falls short of Jim's expectations for masculinity because he defers his authority to Jim's mother and lacks the necessary advice to impart to Jim. Although Ray, the police officer, effectively defuses Jim's temper and successfully elicits his feelings, Ray is absent later in the film when Jim needs him the most. As opposed to Jim's father's overly passive style of masculinity, Buzz and the gang are too aggressive, inciting pointless violence that Jim morally opposes but feels powerless to avoid. Jim himself fails as a figure of paternal masculinity when he abandons Plato near the film's end, which leads to Plato's death.