Mexican Immigrant Man Analysis

In The “New Man” and the Mexican Immigrant Man, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Messner argue that the “new man” are white privileged men and Mexican immigrant men are still seen as traditional sexist men because they do not possess much power in the U.S because they lack spatial mobility or family decision-making. The new man does not exist, but there are men who are performing more housework and are showing their feelings, but many of these men are white privileged males. In the U.S. Mexican immigrant men loose their patriarchy and must act in a macho way to gain their power back and this leads to them being aggressive or sexist. Mexican immigrant men become machos because in the U.S women have more active roles, such as being employed and in Mexico the male …show more content…
In contrast, females should be private and caretakers of the children and their husbands. For example, in the film “In the name of love”, there was a Russian marriage agency where American men could meet single young Russian women and perhaps marry them. This film supports masculinity because women are selling their appearances to be financially supported by men who had money. This agency supports the gender roles society has created, where the female depends on the male for money and she stays at home to cook and take care of the kids. In “A war against boys”, Kimmel also argues that boys show masculinity in their education. Hondagneu-Sotelo and Messner say Mexican immigrant men are seen as machos where they must be masculine and Kimmel says society believes boys must study materials that are more masculine and less feminine. For example, in Kimmel`s article, it says that boys tend to hate English because it is considered for girls because they show their emotions and boys should study math or science. Kimmel, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Messner both talk about masculinity, where society believes males should act masculine where they perceive power and must not show feelings because that is not