Masculinity In Hanna Rosin's The End Of Men

To deny the progress made by women in terms of success in the workplace is absolutely indisputable; however to go as far as saying this success means the “end of men” is simply preposterous. Perhaps the generalization of the typical man being the lumberjack, captain of the football team, powerful iron worker type is fading away, but that hardly means that men are moving aside to let women take away their success. In Hanna Rosin 's article “The End of Men”, Rosin indicates that there is a certain masculinity-crisis. Rosin argues that women are now dominating men in schooling, the workplace and the home. The world is now more suited towards the characteristics of women and they are taking full advantage of it, she argues. Rosin notes that
Rosin uses many stats and a few expert claims in order to persuade the idea that society is against men in general and is now more fitting to women. To say that Rosin does not make compelling arguments is simply not true, however it seems that she has made a crucial mistake in the sense that she has labelled men with a narrow image of what masculinity is and that all men fall into this category. Rosin seems to paint a picture that all men want to be thought of as brawny, tough, risk-takers and even stubborn. The way this article is structured gives an ill impression that this is the way men are and they are not willing to change or adapt. Rosin uses generalizations not only for men, but for women as well; her analysis of gender roles in history, economics, and education seems quite simply, narrow. Through her use of generalizations, she creates an distorted image of the American work place and its future based on misleading statistics. The foundation of Rosin 's picture of a female dominated future workplace is based on how she views the past and the emergence of
To generalize all men under this notion of a savage who can only use brute strength is obviously unfair as each man is different and to categorize them as such is simply not true as many of the greatest thinkers and communicates in history and society are men. Rosin then goes on to make a reference to the Darwinism theory in regards to the advancing societies who use thinking and communicating to find success. This point is quite peculiar as if she believes that societies are adapting to the change of times, yet men are not capable of adapting to such. If employment desires will begin to change as drastically as Rosin makes it seem, men will adapt and learn. The most import factor in American economic success is not a matter of gender, but rather a matter of class and race. Rarely do people come from nothing to find themselves great wealth as social class plays an important role in determining a persons role in society. Most of the wealthiest people in the world are very well educated because they were able to afford higher levels of education because of their social class. Another important factor to consider is