Rhetorical Analysis Of What Boys Want By David Wiseman

I appreciate the author’s attempt to fully submerse herself back into an adolescent mindset in order to understand the complex issues of masculinity, sexuality and gender

A boy longs for connection at the same time he feels the need to pull away, and this opens up an emotional divide. This struggle between his need for connection and his desire for autonomy finds different expression as a boy grows. But, regardless of their age, most boys are ill-prepared for the challenges along the road to becoming an emotionally healthy adult. Whatever role biology plays (and that role is by no means clear) in the ways boys are characteristically different from girls in their emotional expression, those differences are amplified by a culture that supports emotional development of girls and discourages it for boys. Stereotypical notions of masculine toughness deny a boy his emotional resources. We call this process,

Rhetoric can be found almost everywhere in life, and is an important part of people’s interactions with each other. Specifically rhetoric has value in career settings and being able to make a sound argument can be especially important when dealing with employers and clients. Building a relationship with a boss is especially important, which Jay Heinrichs discusses in his book, Thank You for Arguing. Heinrichs recalls a job interview, and how one othe the

In her essay titled “Toxic Masculinity is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma,” Kali Holloway uses scientific data to and evidence to state that gender stereotypes and roles are killing men. Holloway’s essay is a wake up call to today’s society that says we as parents, siblings, teachers, and anyone else who comes into contact to children who are young and impressionable, need to raise boys and girls the same way to prevent and eliminate gender roles and stereotypes.

Heinrichs begins his way of arguing with his eclectic of using your emotions effectively by acknowledging about why and how people argue with logics and rhetoric. He uses personal experiences from people to convey that you can benefit from the use of rhetoric with persuading his reader which is us.

This encyclopedia is an in-depth up-to-date reference on boy culture, edited by several experts on youth culture. Topics range from societal views to ethnicity to looks to cultural tropes to school, and much more. This gives relevant insight into adolescent male culture. This would be helpful for YA librarians, as it would help them with programming, collection development, and give them a general understanding of a large demographic. While this encyclopedia leaves out a large demographic that the other source does not, it is far more modern and applicable to general culture,

Bonds between boys are based less on talking and more on doing things together. Boy's groups are larger and more hierarchical and they struggle with group status. The article suggests that women's complaints that men don't listen to them may stem from the fact that being a listener produces the feeling of being talked down to, a

The saying “Guys will be guys” can be interpreted many different ways good and bad. In this article Barry explains both the good and bad habits that guys have vs the ones that men have. While “Guys vs. Men” by Dave Barry has strong use of pathos and logos overall it was not successful in convincing the audience to believe that there is a difference in Guys vs Men.

Margaret Wente essay, celebrate boys' boyness develops the theme that discrimination towards young boys in public schools is having negative outcomes on the productivity of boys in schools; ultimately causes negative effects toward their future.

The story of Inside the World of Boys by William Pollack brings the attention to us that the boys often suffer from low-self esteem, in large part due to “the boy code”, the unspoken rules that compel them to feel they need to hide their emotions and keep them from exposure. In effect, “the boy code” causes the problem of gender gap between boys and girls in academic performances. I choose this essay because I am concerned with how “the boy code” raises the gender gap between boys and girls in their academic performances and how our societies often underestimate all emotional needs of boys. This story is not only a story but also is a research paper of Pollack which is supported by his research

One main reason that Stephens should teach this unit next year is because I feel like people, specifically boys, should be more open about their feelings, so it won’t build up and eventually burst open like a bubble. One of the sources we examined was “The Mask You Live In”(Jennifer Newson). This documentary showed that boys have tendencies to hide their true emotion because society marks boys as “masculine”, “tough”, and that crying shows signs of weakness. This ties in because I feel like some people may not be able to or may not

The behavior Katz discusses in regards to the taught behavior of boy code by William Pollack, in which boys are taught at a very young age to mask their feelings and act tough. Michael Kimmel then extended Pollack’s boy code into guy code, for late adolescents to young adulthood, in which young men police each other into conformity with dictates about manhood that come with an implicit and sometimes explicit warning. Katz says that basic qualities like compassion, caring, fear, empathy, vulnerability are driven out of boys by a sexist and homophobic culture that labels these actions/feelings as feminine or gay. Men are afraid to communicate these emotions in fear of violent backlash via other men. It’s sad to think that men can’t articulate

The author implements various means to support his point further, from other books (William Pollack’s Real Boys), social psychologists like Robert Brannon, and hundreds of interviews with men who feel pressured to reach these unattainable standards placed upon them (Kimmel 540-541). Kimmel creates a formal and collegiate writing style, yet has a familiar and conversational tone which makes the article easier to digest and

The son's state of denial and destructive behavior all originate from his hidden oedipal fixation to stay with his mother and act as the masculine father-figure. Henry B. Biller systematically demonstrates the result of this fixation when he writes about habits of father-absent boys. In his words Biller writes, “As father-absent boys enter into situations with boys from intact homes, especially as they begin school, they may be ignored for their lack of masculine behavior and/or negatively reinforced for their feminine behavior. Many father-absent boys who are strongly motivated to adopt masculine behavior will do so. Yet at home their mothers may react negatively to such behavior, thus creating conflict” (Biller 1971). This quote entails the inevitable truth

Orenstein began her quest for an honest account of today’s hook-up culture as her daughter approached adolescence. Prior to this point in her life, she had only heard from friends about how teenage girls were treated in today’s culture, now she needed to know if this type of culture really did exist. Since she had been chronicling girl’s lives for over twenty-five years, it was an obvious place to start (Orenstein, P., 2016). She interviewed girls, psychologists, sociologists, pediatricians, educators, and journalist to uncover the ugly truth.