Masculinity Analysis

Mascularity is a characteristic that most men possess. For the most part masculine men try to act strong, confident, etc. Men often become masculine figures without trying to. It is a characteristic that boys are born with in their genes, and as times passes their masculine traits starts coming out little by little. These traits become essential in a man’s personality. They influence how a man will act or be in their everyday life.Two authors named, Michael Chabon and Frank PIttman, wrote about how they believed masculinity impacted men. Everyone has a different point of view towards the idea of masculinity including myself. Based on my own personal experiences based on muscularity I have noticed that men do masculine things because they
Pittman states, “ Maybe we’ll look like a boy if we’re ugly dirty or sloppy or scuffed up, if we keep a snake or a knife (or lately a gun) in our pocket”(2). This shows us that men go out of their way to distinguish themselves in order to make themselves feel different from girls. Men want to be the dominant of the two sexes. Even if they have to look bad or act hard by carrying a deadly weapon. All of this is necessary in order for them to look like a older man and not a weak young boy that could have possibly been mistaken for a girl. Pittman in the story states, “I had to gain acceptance by risking my life in various exploits, by getting drunk throughout my teens, and by making obligatory sexual efforts with women I didn’t know, didn’t like, didn’t want”(5). Growing up for a boy can be extremely difficult. He is faced with challenges he has to accomplish in order to stay in the group he desires at school, and if he does not follow his last years in school will the worst of his life and he does not want to be remembered as the cowardly little boy. These boys instead decide that they will do whatever they have to even if it is against his will to do. He later states, “I’m glad I’ll never again have to make love with someone I don’t love”(5). He was putting his boy and sexual parts in play against his will because he did not want to show that he was
It simply becomes an image, and nothing more than that. Overall, there comes a lot more bad than good when a man tries to be as masculine as possible. It becomes a code that makes your life harder, makes you struggle, makes you do things you do not want to, and that you should never do. It is a powerful trait that gets deep inside your head and blocks reasoning. Your image as a man should never be strong enough that you are willing to hurt the people you love the