This Charming Man

there is no more room in the lifeboats. I start trying to think as quickly as I can I am shaking terrified but I have to focus. I don’t want to jump and freeze to death,but I also don’t want to go down with the ship, before I can make a decision a man picks me up and throws me off, people push a lifeboat under me and I sit down, thankful I am safe. We all watch the Titanic start to sink, listening to “Musicians play for two hours and five minutes and the ship sank” (“Titanic: 40 fascinating…

Further, people grow up and enact these behavioral qualities according to how they identify. The term“doing gender” is defined as an individual adjusting their behavior in order to fulfill society’s expectations (Lorber). In order to fully understand this concept further, I looked at the specific behavioral gender differences that take place in a gym. The gym shows the societal beliefs of what male and female should be and encourages false gender differences which promote a limited workout…

homosexuality existing in society at this time. To not fit the guidelines of masculinity meant that one was not a real man. As the editor of Playboy, Ray Russell, put it, this new bachelor-centered society was “‘in favor of any kind of sexual liberation, as long as it was heterosexual liberation’” (Fraterrigo, 55). Men were allowed to be free from their duties as a breadwinner for the typical nuclear family, but still had to fit perfectly into the rigid prototype of the playboy. This…

An example is the girl who mom’s passed away, the girl had to do all the chores and cook for her father. This set almost an outline that the woman in the family household’s responsibilities is to care for the men of the house. That the women should do all the chores and the men don’t need to and it makes it seem like they don’t have to. By that she feels pressure…

leading anthropologist in the 60’s and 70’s emphasizes: “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think”. Both boys and girls are taught what is normal and what is not from a young age by their parents. Children reared with these thoughts, hold this bias into their adulthood which is seen through the characterizations of these stands from the two passages, The Guy Code: Bros Before Hos by Michael Kimmel and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid. These predispositions to what to conform to in order to…

This movie shows how groups vary in communication skills. Larger groups tend to have a more complex way of communicating. Members in larger groups usually have less opportunities to voice their thoughts and opinions. Throughout this movie I observed how a group of jurors, 12 men, communicated with each other to determine the fate of an 18 year old accused young man. This movie perfectly portrayed the different stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. In the…

students harassing another male student who clearly does not fit the stereotypical “dominant” image of masculinity. As I pass by, I hear members of the group call the student a “pussy faggot.” Being I am well versed in masculinity studies, I decide this is a teachable moment to end ignorances. I would approach them with different possible issues which stems from their actions, language, and why should change their ways. I would touch base on where the behavior stems from, the goals they may…

milestones of the play, it also serves as a catalyst for Macbeth’s slew of murders and quest for power. While fate and madness are large themes in this play, the question of manliness and attempt to seize it serves not only as many character’s mortal flaw, but is treated as a psychological weapon to manipulate characters into action when questioned. This alteration of manliness affects not only the villainous Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and the murderers that Macbeth employs, but even the supposed…

alpha. My definition of a true alpha is the kind of man every boy wants to become. But I think we can remove the gender limitation and define it as the hero every child wants to be. Back to your question. In short, you can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. And if everyone changed themselves, then the world would change. In other words, become a true alpha. But who is the hero everyone wants to become? Who are the real alphas in this world? A real alpha knows exactly what he…

to lead people to overlook things that should not be overlooked.” In this example, famous radio personality, Jimmy Savile was found guilty of sexually abusing vulnerable patients in a hospital. Savile was able to use the power that came with being famous to get himself into the hospital. Celebrities should never force themselves on individuals who deliberately say “no,” much less people who cannot defend themselves. Writing on this same topic is Marcus Erooga, research fellow at the University…