Masculinity In William Pollack's Real Boys

Women are physically different from men but share the same environment and rights to live, air and water as them. As William Pollack stated in his book Real Boys, both sexes are, “deeply ingrained in the codes of our society.” These codes are represented as stereotypes, which are societal laws that define womanhood and manhood. Womanhood is often associated with femininity while manhood with masculinity. The particular terms are utilized to describe the attitudes and comportment of men and women. Masculinity is the idea that men are tough both physically and mentally. Meanwhile, femininity is the assumption that women should wear dresses, skirts, high heel, makeup, have long hair and are gentle. The two pictures which will be used as a source of comparison, portray Grace Jones as an individual with both elements of femininity and masculinity. Additionally, Grace Jones is a supermodel and singer, renowned for her artistic fashion style. She was born in Kingston, …show more content…
Jones, is wearing an Armani pitch-black jacket suit accompanied by a cigarette in her mouth in the first picture. Like a man, half of her head is shaved clean, the top part cut short and flat. She stands upright, strong, which are characteristics of masculinity.Compared to the first image, she wears a satin wine colored big scarf, which covers most of her head and is attached to boysenberry colored leather top in the second image. On this illustration, her eyes are surrounded by dark, heavy eyeliner, below her, thickly drawn eyebrows, there is purple eyeshadow. There’s foundation that matches her chocolate tone covering her face and pink blush powder on each side of her cheeks too. Similarly, in both images she has no accessories, head turned left and a low cut out in the front exposing her chest and neck.Unlike the manful ambiance of the first imagine, the second one has a womanish feel to