Rebel or lost?

When I watched Rebel Without a Cause, I could not help, but notice the rolls of masculinity of men in this film kind of lacked in the characters. It really seemed that majority of the men roles were showing softer aspects in personality. As we know, our society seems to hold this idea of man and masculinity were man should be tough, not cry, show little to no emotions, etc. I Rebel Without a Cause you can see the man not being the society "norm" for masculinity.

You see this early on in the movie were Jim Stark (Dean) is in tears about how his father is more or less being pushed around by his mother hinting that his dad Frank Stark has no spine and needs to "man up" as some would say. He wishes his dad would just stand up for himself once at least. During this, Jim is in tears and showing a lot of personal feelings and emotions about this matter which if he was a "true man" in society standards, this would not have happened and he would not be so emotional about the situation, at least in public.

Jim seems to be very disappointed with his father and wants to see his father be the "man" for once and the father he needs in his life to show him how to be a "man." We see a scene were Jim walks in on his father just after his father dropped a tray that he was bringing to Jim's mom and the father almost seemed to fear his own wife while picking up the food hoping the mom would not find out while at the same time wearing a very feminine flowery apron. I feel honestly, the only masculine male role in the film is the Juvenile detective. He even asks Jim to go to him if he ever needs to just talk to someone. The detective shows all the typical signs of masculinity and has a very alpha male feel to him compared to the others.

You later get introduced to Pluto who by all means shows everything that goes against the male gender role. He has emotion, attachment towards Jim, seems very dependent, emotional, and I can not help but feel that this character may have a very feminine personality and I wondered if he may possibly be gay. He seems way to comfortable hanging on Jim in a sense and seems to want to spend every waking moment with him just after knowing Jim for a few minutes even. He has very delicate features about him as well. I feel that all in all, this film challenges the society standards of femininity and masculinity in many ways.