Wednesday, March 30, 2011

post #4 stereotypes

stereotypes had always play an important role in history.The pass of time is what builds up many of  them, in this case referring to the issue that black men and woman, and white women as well.The oppression,prejudice and racism.In the reading "The black male: searching beyond stereotypes", we come across the struggle of those who wanted to be on top.The dilemma back there was that the white men were on top followed by the white women, then black men and last black women.whites men wanted to keep their supremacy over the black men, thus they humiliated them by treating they just as simple slave and taking away their masculinity by castrating them.White women used to see black men as wild animals.The image they had of them was the one which put them as raping beast and last black women were oppressed by their husband which used to release their oppression toward their wives.There was a point consider as advance by black men the one when they obtain the right to vote in the fifteenth amendment,this last one changed the view of the scheme in society, because it put white women under black male and this issue generated troubles between black men and white women, while black women were fighting to raise their children and keeping their families together.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

post #3 "the male myth"

 Paul Theroux talks in "The male myth", about what most people think about a male writer. On his reading he included the opinion that "one cannot be a male writer without first proving that one is a man".(103).This opinion that writing is not manly enough for a man is based in the fact that writing is more feminine than masculine, for example;writing includes having imagination,feelings,emotions,being creative and having a poor salary,compare to the salary a man should have to support the family etc.A male writer must be a "journalist" in order to practice this profession.This ideas mentioned, linked to the one that all men must play sports are to the "disliked" of Theroux and contribute for him hating the fact of being a man due to the part were he is being obligate to prove it.Theroux talks about his experience with the sports,he explain why he doesn't like sports.He explains it saying that  sports are "wasteful and humiliating" ; if we think about it when he says that is because he like writing instead of playing any sports,thus,  since it was disapproved for men he "disliked" it so much.

Monday, March 21, 2011

post#2

on   "a night to his day" Lobers talks about how genders are represented in society.What this reading does is to give a list check of the role that each gender are consider to occupy in society ; females and males are judged differently, and also it  try to show  that those rolse each gender had assign by society as their daily labors are changing throughout the pass of the time.He shows that men are not afraid to do thing that were think to be part of a woman life anymore  .Also he talks about we having a kind of  life schedule, an organize life according to our gender; males are stronger  than females it is a basic rule between genders which  are the base of society. 

Friday, March 11, 2011

blog #1..do you think men are born or made?

      I used to think that men were born just as a girl is born, but the reading made me change my mind a little bit, because it seems that since the moment that a egg-cell is fertilize, men have the challenge of being made. First of all, is that the "sex-Determining Gene" has to be active in order to be a man. This is like if  men just don't happen naturally. A man requires  lot of  things in order to be one, for example hormones.
      Do think men are made?, yes, but naturally fighting themselves  to become men , and not to let the SDY to fail,  not made by science, artificial. In this case men are fighting towards nature , they are fighting for the right of becoming what they really want to be, not what others  want them to. It is a normal process the strongest gene win. Thus, is what i stick to that men are made but from the beginning,they are made from the inside once a the baby is out there's nothing i believe that can change what it is, a man is both made and born.