Masculinity in Being a Man Essay

October 7th, 2017, in Las Vegas. The suspect Stephen Paddock, is now known for being one of the worst mass shooter in American history. The authors of the article, Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober, reported Paddock killed roughly 58, and injured approximately 500 people (Tristan Bridges, 2017; Tristan Bridges, 2017). The sociologist in the editorial, discovered a connection between mass shooter, social identity, masculinity, and gun violence in possible contributing factors towards the…

Gina Aine Cathy Jones English 1A, 48354 2/28/16 Reading Response #3 Shootings & Mass Killings in the U.S.: Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity In the article, “Shootings” the author Adam Gopnik it is part of everyone life that there always are the risk of being danger where every you go to the shopping malls, the schools, at the political events, in people workplaces, in a movie theater or other different location. No matter the shootings are they always at the school shootings. Life is…

Gender Roles in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennesssee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois as she arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister. Throughout the play, we see her sanity diminish until her departure. In this play, the theme of gender roles is explored through the representation of the male and female characters and through the symbol of the poker night. Williams shows the theme of gender roles through the characters and how they react to the different…

Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps is a memoir that has brought many of the concepts and material in this class to life. One of the first concepts that was given context to by this memoir was the violent masculinity that was discussed in the film Tough Guise 2. This violent masculinity was the notion that violence is a men’s issue and the ignorance of media and society to this issue and where it stems from a majority of the time. Where we see this take form in the memoir especially is with Carissa’s…

strangers as his father: “Sometimes, seeing a man in a suit come toward me from a distance..., I would prepare myself to recognize my father and to be recognized by him.” This desperation to be “recognized” by his largely absent father, creates a need within Jack to be accepted and loved, adored and respected. One poignant example is captured by the “long letters” he writes “at least once a week, ten twelve, fifteen pages at a time” to his pen pal, despite her being a “terse and irregular…

based off. Masculinity. He associates masculinity with aggression and feels that anger is the only emotion that he should display. For this reason, he frequently beats his wives, even threatening to kill them from time to time. These actions and the reason why he wants to be viewed as very masculine is most likely cause by Okonkwo’s relationship with his late father. He wants to rise above his father’s indolent behavior, which he views as weak and therefore effeminate. His fear of being viewed…

of King. In order to become King, Macbeth needs to kill King Duncan, Banquo and McDuff’s family, but finds this strength hard to manifest in the beginning of the play. Lady Macbeth, Macbeth’s manipulative and ambitious wife, questions Macbeth’s masculinity, coercing him into resulting to killing Duncan, Banquo and McDuff’s family. Macbeth’s actions were a result of an amount of internal and external factors, but in order to perform such actions, there needed to be some amount of strength behind…

The ideal characteristics of a ‘perfect man’ constructed in sports advertising are weighted to support certain discourses of how men should be, or how they should aspire to be. In the NIKE Football television advert, we see how gender roles are played out within the context of a sports field. The way the characters are positioned within this space provides an example of the social rules related to the performance of gender that manage this space. Masculine power, both physical and social, is…

The 2012 romantic comedy Think Like a Man reads like a menist manifesto masquerading as a film for women. Throughout the course of the film there are many conversations about gender roles and sexuality in contemporary society, though these conversations are both crude and frankly outdated. The film itself is based on a book written by Steve Harvey titled Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. With the title alone we are given our first example of just how problematic the ideology of the film is.…

shows the relationship between masculinity and femininity. The film is about a heroic warrior Beowulf, played by (Ray Winstone), who’s determination of glory, and his eagerness for fame in the end leads to his demise. Beowulf has to overcome challenges by killing the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, played by (Angelina Jolie) and a dragon. Beowulf displays his masculinity through his strength, honor, bravery, and through his physique. He represent, the ideal of what a man should be. For…