Masculinity in Society Throughout history, masculinity has subjected many males to certain male-oriented expectations of what it means to be a man from socially constructed gender roles in society. Men in literature and life have been deemed as the more powerfully prominent gender in society as they are described as being rational, stoic, athletic, breadwinners, bellicose, and dominant. The excerpts J-Pod by Douglas Coupland describe masculinity through a males economic status in the workplace. The essay “Light Lifting” demonstrates a man’s behaviour and determination in his will to succeed. Through the factors of jobs, economic status, and behaviour contrast the ideas from each of the texts of what signifies masculinity in society. Jobs
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Within this job of being a marketer, the employees and the narrator are allowed freedom and creativity to create the game but follow rules and regulations as stated earlier with including a turtle in the skateboard. Which for the employees, the marketers can be very labour intensive without taking a physical toll on the body. As the location of the job is in an office since the narrator is constructing games and having, “a three-hour [meetings that] had taken place in a two-hundred-seat room” (Coupland 3). This can affect a man’s masculinity in society as to men that work in this field of an occupation can be perceived as less manlier and vigour compared to a man with a physically demanding manual job like a construction worker. In contrast, not all men are parallel and are able to tolerate sitting in a desk all day work in a small cubicle. Some men preferably enjoy physical labour to mental labour like constructing or marketing games like in J-Pod. In the essay “Light Lifting”, the job that the men perform as suggested in the title, is a manual labour job lifting bricks and placing them into place on driveways, or backyard patios. As these men, would work during the day in the summertime through the dead heat and get sunburnt when …show more content…
This job being an outdoorsy occupation compared to other higher social class jobs in offices, “[spends] most of [their] time in the new subdivisions” (MacLeod 88). Being a lower class in society this group of people provides services to those in need of driveways and backyard patios. Which in this essay is considered to be the middle class population in society. Since the working class people are only able to suitable to doing certain tasks simple driveways and patios as well as, “one-of-a-kinder jobs. Like when some lady wanted us to put a connecting circle in her back patio. We could do that. Or when a guy wanted to write out his initials in the stoned of his driveway. People asked us to do that kind of stuff for them. They wanted a big capital M in there with a different colour brick” (MacLeod 87). The type of freedom and creativity they have is restricted to the amount of tasks they have to do for other customers, their boss, and the type of job they have. Thus restricting a man’s freedom and
Within this job of being a marketer, the employees and the narrator are allowed freedom and creativity to create the game but follow rules and regulations as stated earlier with including a turtle in the skateboard. Which for the employees, the marketers can be very labour intensive without taking a physical toll on the body. As the location of the job is in an office since the narrator is constructing games and having, “a three-hour [meetings that] had taken place in a two-hundred-seat room” (Coupland 3). This can affect a man’s masculinity in society as to men that work in this field of an occupation can be perceived as less manlier and vigour compared to a man with a physically demanding manual job like a construction worker. In contrast, not all men are parallel and are able to tolerate sitting in a desk all day work in a small cubicle. Some men preferably enjoy physical labour to mental labour like constructing or marketing games like in J-Pod. In the essay “Light Lifting”, the job that the men perform as suggested in the title, is a manual labour job lifting bricks and placing them into place on driveways, or backyard patios. As these men, would work during the day in the summertime through the dead heat and get sunburnt when …show more content…
This job being an outdoorsy occupation compared to other higher social class jobs in offices, “[spends] most of [their] time in the new subdivisions” (MacLeod 88). Being a lower class in society this group of people provides services to those in need of driveways and backyard patios. Which in this essay is considered to be the middle class population in society. Since the working class people are only able to suitable to doing certain tasks simple driveways and patios as well as, “one-of-a-kinder jobs. Like when some lady wanted us to put a connecting circle in her back patio. We could do that. Or when a guy wanted to write out his initials in the stoned of his driveway. People asked us to do that kind of stuff for them. They wanted a big capital M in there with a different colour brick” (MacLeod 87). The type of freedom and creativity they have is restricted to the amount of tasks they have to do for other customers, their boss, and the type of job they have. Thus restricting a man’s freedom and