In the reading “Seeing is Believing” by Judith Lorber, she explains that men and women are generalized as soon as they are born. Lorber portrays the way society authorizes how men and women should act, what they should do, and how they should look. In the article “Getting Huge, Getting Ripped” by Matthew Petrocelli, Trish Oberweis, and Joseph Petrocelli, they study men who take steroids in order to become “ripped”. Some important ideas of their study is to find out why men tend to take these illegal steroids and what is does to them mentally and physically. Petrocelli also interviews steroid users and includes their input on why they take steroids and what it has done for them. To start, Lorber is exemplified by Petrocelli. One of Lorber’s
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Just like how men are expected to do the labor while the women stay at home and clean. And Lorber explains that by saying, “he is much more likely to take the wheel than she is, even is she is the more competent driver” “it is a form of social power” (730). This means that men have more social power over women, even with driving. Men have to be the ones who take initiative, and be the one who is always in control. Maybe because the way social pressure acts on men, their reactions become a pattern. Petrocelli then explains what the training environment is, “very few (if any) women, blaring music, and larger than average men.” Petrocelli illustrates that there aren’t very many women out there who lift weights, implying it is more of a men’s sport. Lorber helps the reader understand this because she shows men seek social power through technology and cars. Petrocelli shows men also seek social power but in a more modern, illegal, and extreme way. Although it’s not all men that are taking it to the next level. Petrocelli states, “Our sample proved fairly homogeneous for key demographic variables.” He explains that most white, middle aged men are taking the illegal steroids. It’s not a wide range of different men who are doing this. These are middle class, well-educated men, why do they feel the need to go work in a ghetto gym taking illegal drugs? Or why they aren’t worried about their health and the effects that the steroids …show more content…
This has helped the reader understand Petrocelli and his study with men and illegal steroid usage. Men and women were pressured by society to look how they were supposed to. Furthermore these men were conditioned by society to seek out social power and gaining physical power did so. However, Lorber states that society trains people to act the same and not behave differently. Most people steroid use as strange or crazy but to the bodybuilders of this world it is just what they do. So next time when you’re putting on makeup or working out is it something you want to do or something you are pressured to do? Is it something you want to do? Or is it something society has compelled you to
Just like how men are expected to do the labor while the women stay at home and clean. And Lorber explains that by saying, “he is much more likely to take the wheel than she is, even is she is the more competent driver” “it is a form of social power” (730). This means that men have more social power over women, even with driving. Men have to be the ones who take initiative, and be the one who is always in control. Maybe because the way social pressure acts on men, their reactions become a pattern. Petrocelli then explains what the training environment is, “very few (if any) women, blaring music, and larger than average men.” Petrocelli illustrates that there aren’t very many women out there who lift weights, implying it is more of a men’s sport. Lorber helps the reader understand this because she shows men seek social power through technology and cars. Petrocelli shows men also seek social power but in a more modern, illegal, and extreme way. Although it’s not all men that are taking it to the next level. Petrocelli states, “Our sample proved fairly homogeneous for key demographic variables.” He explains that most white, middle aged men are taking the illegal steroids. It’s not a wide range of different men who are doing this. These are middle class, well-educated men, why do they feel the need to go work in a ghetto gym taking illegal drugs? Or why they aren’t worried about their health and the effects that the steroids …show more content…
This has helped the reader understand Petrocelli and his study with men and illegal steroid usage. Men and women were pressured by society to look how they were supposed to. Furthermore these men were conditioned by society to seek out social power and gaining physical power did so. However, Lorber states that society trains people to act the same and not behave differently. Most people steroid use as strange or crazy but to the bodybuilders of this world it is just what they do. So next time when you’re putting on makeup or working out is it something you want to do or something you are pressured to do? Is it something you want to do? Or is it something society has compelled you to