Hyper Masculinity Vs. Emasculation

The articles “My Father the Dope Dealer” and “My Father’s Double Life” prove that parents’ actions can have a negative effect on their children. First, "My Father the Dope Dealer" illustrates the negative effects of parents' actions on their child. Tony talks about how his "public-school friends called [him] 'poor boy'" and how he was the kid who didn’t “have money for lunch and had an AWOL father whose name [his] mother seldom mentioned” (Dokoupil 5). Tony wasn’t treated well in school because of the legacy his father had left behind.

Johnson provides a brief account of the novella 's plot, together with his own perspective on the fact that so much of literature and literary analysis concentrates on the relationships that the characters have. In this case, the author examines the family as composed of children of ineffectual parents. While this writer does not know this with certainty, it is possible that many cases requiring family therapy are due to this very cause. The author then goes on to discuss the family in the context of the greater social system.

A father’s true objective lies in his mind and commitment to his family. Debauchery becomes irrelevant and a sense of achievement overcomes. Such standards set for an ideal father are mere facades of what was deemed “normal” in a typical white household. However that is not the case for Jeannette Walls. Unlike many, Walls has experienced a permissive childhood of exploration and adventure that brought about several realizations in her youth. One of these realizations was the concern of identifying the good will of an individual or the malicious intent they may bear. Though at the time, this was the least of her worries. What was undoubtedly coherent to Walls --- was the detriments of a father. The influence of a father that does not display unity, supply sufficient necessities, and presents ease diminishes his family’s happiness.

Society’s current structure of masculinity is unforgiving in form. It cuts out other forms of masculinity, it physically and mentally demanding, and its ill effects extend far beyond the men it infuses itself in. Yet what would we do if we were given other options for masculinity, ones that allowed for unique blends of attitudes and perceptions? Looking in to the lives of homeless men we can see the forced strategies which create new masculine codes created for the adaption against patriarchal pressures. They are made out of survival need to circumnavigate the painful mental and physical reality that is only made worse by harsh masculine standards. Yet these new masculinities hold out a form of hopefulness for society. They offer up new discussion to what it means to be a man, the potential for change, and what we can expect from changes in male identity over time. Using what we learn from the disadvantaged, we can hope to improve the lives of people, although the process will take time, effort, and careful mediation.

In approximately 1858, 10-year-old Joseph’s world is shaken with the death of his father. Charles Kello dies of unknown causes. Losing a parent means a loss of childhood, of innocence, and a part of oneself. No other bond exists like the one with a parent. As a 10-year-old child, Joseph depends on his parents. Parents are his caretakers. They provide him with information about the world and supply moral support. The loss of his dad at such an early age has a profound effect on the rest of his life. The loss affects his sense of security and his relationships with his mother and

Generally, in life, you look up to your father to be your care taker, and to encourage you to make smart life decisions. Fathers should have your best interest at heart and show compassion for you. However, that wasn’t the scenario for Sarty Snopes in William Falkner’s “Barn Burning”. William Falkner, the author of “Barn Burning” was born in 1897. “His parents, Murry Faulkner and Maud Butler Falkner, named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years’ prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi”. (Biography) William Faulkner was relatively unidentified until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. In “Barn Burning”, there are many instances that occurs which demonstrates

It is proposed by Kimmel that there is a deviance from the normal growth of males into adults and it has shown a growing deviance for several decades. The attitude of youth before adulthood appears to be prolonged within certain groups of young men in present society. There is no clear standard on what it means to become a man. There is also no set belief in what is means to be masculine . The outcome of varying opinions and beliefs on the matter creates a void where males are stuck between boyhood and manhood. The males found in this social arena lack most responsibility that their counterparts are beginning to have. Due to this attitude and way of thinking, these boys are able to disregard the traditional sense of work and relationships.. There is an adoption of the “boys will be boys” belief that creates a timeline for boys to excuse certain behaviors. What Kimmel refers to as “guy land” in reality is a time and place that it’s inhabitants can use and abuse substances in a social setting and also have promiscuous sex without the care for consequences..

Sarty is in an internal conflict with himself due to his father, if he should stay loyal to him even though it is wrong, or doing the right thing, even if it means betraying Abner. His father tends to be very abusive and violent; he hits Sarty and says, “You were fixing to tell them. You would have told him.” “You’re getting to be a man. You got to learn. You got to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you.” (1958) Abner depends on his son to keep him from getting into trouble, but thinks he would’ve gotten caught because of Sarty’s “non-manlike behavior” at the court. Sarty has known all along that his father’s actions are wrong, yet he still helps him. When the Justice of Peace tells Abner to leave the country, a flood of hope and relief rushes over Sarty.

His father’s actions make it hard to fit in because he lets his anger get the best of him. Ab Snopes is accused of burning a barn and Sarty must decide whether to be loyal to his father family or betray them. As Sarty and his family travel to their next home, Sarty cannot even bring himself to think the truth about what his father has done for fear of the repercussions. When they arrive at their new place, Sarty believes that these people are “too big” for his father to reach with his wrath due to their stature. The young boy hopes that his father will change his ways because this was the nicest place they had ever lived.

What is masculinity? Answers may vary depending on who you may ask, C.J. Pascoe’s ethnography titled Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School targets high school as being the important location where the term masculinity is asserted, defended and defined by the students who roam the halls of River High. High school is a difficult time for anyone, especially when we bring up the ideals of sexuality and gender identity, all topics which are explored in this ethnography. Pascoe spent around eighteen months of fieldwork in the racially diverse working middle-class River High School. Dude You’re A Fag sheds a new light on masculinity as a meaning as well as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe 's unconventional approach examines masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. Pascoe demonstrates how the threat of the word fag becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

Many socio-historical studies on masculinity have often revealed how Machismo is embedded in the Latino culture within the United States. Machismo is defined as a strong sense of masculine pride, often exhibited by Latino men. In Latino culture in the United States, machismo is not only accepted, but always expected. In any study that investigates the Latino group, machismo is a subject that cannot be left behind.

The cruelty and domination of a father, can extinguish any flame of hope that develops in the people around him. To have a sense of peace, a craving hunger to belittle those around him that thought they were “better than him” seemed to be the only way. A father figure is commonly known for his compassion and general desire for the best in his family, however, in “Barn Burning”, William Faulkner took a different route in creating Abner Snopes, showing social inequity and economic inequality.

In the short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” a family comprising of a grandmother, a father, three children, and a wife is headed on vacation has the misfortune of meeting a murderous band of serial killers. The Misfit and his band of serial killers are recently escapees of a federal prison. In the following paragraphs this paper looks into the issues of, what one would do in a situation such as that and the background of the the family and murderers as well.

All stories, as all individuals, are embedded in a context or setting: a time, a place, and a culture. In fact, characters and their relationship to others are better understood in a specific context of time, place and atmosphere, as they relate to a proposed theme or central point of a story. Abner is revealed as a sadistic character who confronts his son with the choice of keeping his loyal ties to the family or parting for a life on his own with no familial support. Sarty is Abner's son, a young boy torn by the words of his father and the innate senses of his heart. Sarty is challenged by an internal conflict, he wants to disobey his father, yet he knows that if he leaves he will have nowhere to go and no one to turn to. We will

Merriam-Webster defines hypermasculine as, “extremely or excessively masculine” we then must know what masculine is. Webster defines it as, “having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man” therefore hypermasculine shouldn’t be a bad thing, if it’s as simple as having the extreme version of the characteristics that you naturally live by as a man. However the society we live in has created an image for masculinity to become negative, even saying it's toxic to be masculine. Although sometimes the image can be not negative it’s asking for specific things that seem to be limiting the individuality of men. “The traditional male gender role encapsulates a belief by men that they should be tough, be independent, act as