To further explain factors behind why people commit violent acts, the article “Gender, Class, and Terrorism” by Michael S. Kimmel explores the factor of gender as given away in the title. The author analyzes the idea that masculinity is connected to aggression and violence. There is a hostile characteristic of being male and being equal to social standards. This essay links gender and class to terrorism by comparing terrorist and seeing the relation. It seems that the terror of emasculation influences the male gender to take over and be in control. Kimmel provides information that hides the terrorists’ doing. Their acts are manly among their society. However, “these men” are a part of a group with certain “ideals” that influence what they
