Emasculation

The article “Poste-Princess Models of Gender: The New Man in Disney/Pixar” by Gillam and Wooden uses great examples to show how the views on masculinity is changing. In the article, they talk about ‘emasculation of the alpha male’, which is when you deprive a man of his role. In they describe a man’s masculinity using moves such as toy story, little mermaid, the Incredibles, etc. They talked about how Buzz Lightyear and his companion Sheriff Woody see themselves based “on a masculine model of…

(INSERT CATCHY THING) Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962. The novel presented many hippie, counter culture ideas, such as society’s negative toll on an individual’s psyche, and that sanity and madness is more of a matter of who is and isn’t adjusted to society (Shechner, 2002). The novel also explores the deplorable conditions and treatments mental patients are subjected to, from electroshock therapy to lobotomies to physical and mental abuse, all from the perspective of a…

I love black women. I love their curves and their flava. I love their attitudes and their intricacies. Black women are the ultimate puzzle. Sometimes you put the pieces together and you may not like the picture. But that is true of everyone. Black women do not hold a patent on being difficult to deal with. Black men, actually, have a huge stock in that area too. With that said, my matter of interest is the image some of our black women portray. I am not referring to them dressing in a skimpy…

Representations of hegemonic masculinity can be seen most prevalently in the media, as it is often emphasised and privileged over other forms of masculinity. Through combining studies of hegemonic masculinity and the representation of masculinity in films, advertising and magazines I will present a discussion on how the media usually conforms to and thus uphold the hegemonic view of masculinity, but also how it can challenge it. The majority of studies tend to focus on the United States or…

whether Nana, Mammy, Mariam, and Laila will make selfish choices or sacrifice for their children, as mothers or mother figures throughout the novel. The first archetypal woman is the terrible mother, which is associated with fear, danger, darkness, emasculation, and death. Nana and Mammy are two women from the novel who are correspondent with the characteristics of the terrible mother, that make bad sacrifices…

understanding their work? T.S Eliot was a modernist poet. “The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock” was the first published poem by Eliot and established him as a writer with a unique voice. Eliot covers motifs of existentialism, sexual inadequacy, emasculation and morality in…

“Sky Father” is a Greek Mythological power of a sky god who is addressed as an all-powerful father: Uranus, Cronus, Zeus. Sky Father may also be taken co-dependent to the “Earth Mother”: Gaea. Sky Father is humanized to give a man-like, strong, commanding presence, often being tasked with controlling the major factors of human lives and keeping the other gods in check in a fatalistic culture. The Greeks created gods in the image of humans, flawed and having many human qualities even though they…

Looking at his backstory explains what prompted him to kill the Mahatma. During his trial for his murder of Gandhi, he demonstrated his hyper masculinity as he criticized Gandhi for the “emasculation of the Hindu community and make it incapable of resisting oppression” (Godse,“May It Please Your Honor, 42). He also discusses the futility of Gandhi’s fasts and how he failed as Father of the Nation but rather proven to be the “Father of Pakistan”…

describes her with the use of animals, utilizing these descriptions to represent her as an unnatural, masculine force which he could not escape. Ultimately, his characterization of Juliana as masculine and powerful serves to legitimize his own emasculation and self-victimization, attempting to inspire pity, rather than scorn, from the…

society. The female dressed in “male” clothing might be deemed as more powerful because of this, yet the male dressed in the netball attire would be deemed as a laughing stock. Simply because he is emasculated. This is due to the dichotomic role emasculation and feminisation play in…