How To Date A Browngirl Analysis

Masculinity in Things Fall Apart and How to Date a Browngirl In both Junot Diaz’s How to Date a Browngirl and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, there is a large focus on the importance of masculinity in both societies as well as the contribution of masculinity to one's identity. In Things Fall Apart there is a clear blatant division among the roles of women and men which is an idea that Okonkwo stands by firmly. In Junot Diaz’s How to Date a Browngirl… he is trying to prove to himself that he is masculine by dating many girls and taking on a player mentality. He acts according to the race of the girl and where she is from as if he knows each type of girl well enough due to his experience being excessive. He believes that if he can get with …show more content…
He does not attach himself to any one person he is trying to see how many girls he can use to justify his own masculinity. As a reference to a previous work of Diaz titled Drown we see how Yunior was by definition raped by his best friend Beto and is confused afterwards. Especially in stereotypical spanish community being homosexual was seen in a very negative light. He tries to prove to the world and possibly maintain an image of this player mentality to avoid judgement or suspicions. His main battle is within himself however and he uses girls to help him get over it instead of directly attacking the problem he has internally and expressing it vocally to someone.In the passage the narrator says “and when your boy asks, still waiting on that bitch? Say, hell yeah!” which further implies that he sees these girls as objects and categorizes them in accordance to stereotypes which he uses to his advantage towards his behavior. He tries to act as if he knows exactly how girls think based on where they live and mainly their skin color. One can infer this is because he has gathered enough information from the countless attempts that it has become