Stephen Dunn’s “Locker Room Talk” takes the reader through Dunn’s personal experiences as he listened to other guys’ stories about girls throughout his life. His memories start from when he was young, at around twelve or thirteen, when an older boy named Frankie talked about having sex with a girl and introduced him to pornography in the school yard where he felt “Wonderment. Not wonderful.” Later on, when he got more experience under his belt, the wonderment that he felt was substituted by embarrassment although he did not know if he was embarrassed for the girl being spoken about, the guy telling the story or himself as the listener. During college while at the locker room he heard a guy explain, purposely loud enough so the whole room
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He asked himself if this meant that men preferred other men, or if this was done to gain power but he concluded that this was a way of protecting themselves from having feelings and loving a woman which they feared since “To fall in love with one is to be distracted from the world of accomplishment and …show more content…
This exposure of negativism can lead to women having disorders such as depression or make them feel worthless unless they are attractive causing them to believe that their intelligence has no value or necessity. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) has released the statistics of the annual plastic surgery procedural reporting that “15.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures, including both minimally-invasive and surgical, were performed in the United States in 2013, up 3 percent since 2012.” The increase of plastic surgery can be directly reflected on the choices women are making because of their insecurities. These insecurities can lead them into going under the knife, spending thousands of dollars, searching for body modification, such as breast enlargement or gastric banding, to be able to fit in with society’s idea on what is beautiful and what is not. Even though the surgeries are expensive and some even dangerous many women are desperate enough that they are able to overlook the cons of the
He asked himself if this meant that men preferred other men, or if this was done to gain power but he concluded that this was a way of protecting themselves from having feelings and loving a woman which they feared since “To fall in love with one is to be distracted from the world of accomplishment and …show more content…
This exposure of negativism can lead to women having disorders such as depression or make them feel worthless unless they are attractive causing them to believe that their intelligence has no value or necessity. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) has released the statistics of the annual plastic surgery procedural reporting that “15.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures, including both minimally-invasive and surgical, were performed in the United States in 2013, up 3 percent since 2012.” The increase of plastic surgery can be directly reflected on the choices women are making because of their insecurities. These insecurities can lead them into going under the knife, spending thousands of dollars, searching for body modification, such as breast enlargement or gastric banding, to be able to fit in with society’s idea on what is beautiful and what is not. Even though the surgeries are expensive and some even dangerous many women are desperate enough that they are able to overlook the cons of the