Rodney Hu Eng 103 Professor Gray Feb. 18, 2015 Real Men and Pink Suits In the article, “Real Men and Pink Suites” by Charles M. Blow, the author sheds light on a sensitive subject in society. Blow gives his thoughts on society and how they view manhood and masculinity. He mentions situations where people are insulting or hurting others for their lack of masculinity. Blow argues that the idea of masculinity is broad enough and wide enough for all of us to fit into. He is able to connect to the people of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community because he gives examples of how these people are being hurt by society for being different.
Journal 03: America Tony Hoagland’s poem “America” uses specific nouns and metaphors to tell readers that America is too obsessed with material objects and self-satisfaction. Hoagland uses these nouns and metaphors to hide truth from the naked eye, specific diction is also used in combination with these metaphors to expose corruption in American society. In the opening lines, Hoagland writes, “Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud / Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison / Whose walls are made of Radio Shacks, Burger Kings, and MTV episodes.” Hoagland almost lists the details of American trends by mentioning hair color and piercings, and by describing businesses like Radio Shack which sell 70-inch flat screen televisions, which are completely unnecessary, and fast food restaurants like McDonald’s that give super-sized food portions. These allow readers to immediately see the ridiculous
Essentially, the entertainments that we see and hear from men deal with violence, and women entertain the viewers sexually. Evidently, the ads presented in “Two ways a woman can get hurt,” Kilbourne expounds on how women’s sexual appeal hurts themselves. In “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos,” Morgan relates gender behavior to hip hop lyrics. Furthermore, she questions
This coolness forces the audience to feel sympathy towards those subject to warfare. This backs up Dawes ideas in weapons training that war makes people less sensitive, demonstrated by the sexist and racist attitudes shown, for example ‘turning the key in the ignition’ which suggests he thought of women as merely ‘devices’ and ‘Charlies are coming at you you cn smell their rotten fish sauce breath hot on the back’ which displays a strong hatred and disgust towards the enemy.which is commercial television at the beg Dawes has written the poem in subtle mocking tone by using over-enthusiastic words such as ‘roaring empyrean’, ‘shrapnelled with rapture’, ‘passion’ and ‘hope of
Her title, "Elliot Rodger was a misogynist -- but is that all he was?," implies that she is attempting to figure out if he really was a misogynist or something more complex, but her real goal is to convince her readers that he was indeed nothing more than a misogynist acting out the violence that our misogynistic culture encourages; in addition to ignoring the hateful words Rodger directed at men, she also glossed over the deaths of his male roommates, his obviously troubled mental state, and his blatant racism. Hadley Freeman's 2014 Guardian article, "Elliot Rodger was a misogynist -- but is that all he was? ", therefore, is a perfect example of slanted
and AIDS. They said these spiteful and hurtful things all just to make him feel that he was wrong for being who he was, but sadly that isn’t all they did. The therapist made him watch videos of gay men hugging, kissing, and even having sex, while he had to watch all this the therapist ordered this young man to be bound on the table, where ice, heat, and electricity were put to his body. The therapist wanted him to associate the pain he was feeling to the images and videos to make him want to be a straight
How and why are the male characters in Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk) and Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) emasculated in order to compare and contrast its significance to the two novels themes and ideas? The OED defines emasculation as “depriving (a man) of his male role or identity”. Within Fight Club and Trainspotting the authors challenge the stereotypical concept of masculinity through the use and manipulation of their characters. Stereotypically, there are two sides to masculinity, one is honourable and brave (a more traditional view of masculinity) another is brutality and death (this is idea of masculinity which is normally liked with tyrants in human history like Hitler or Xerxes I). Through Palahniuk and Welsh’s portrayal of attitudes towards death and danger, readers are shown a brutal side of masculinity where disregard for personal safety is a common leitmotif.
“The men, already sure of their game, would wait by the coconut grove to attack him with words” (Sánchez, 55). Here we appreciate how the society attacks using words such as “drag queen”, “fag”, and other words in a derogatory mode. We also get to know in the story that this place has a heteronormative were man should dress like a man and woman like a woman. 1 LGBTIQ is the acronym of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Questioning community. 2 Sexual preferences and orientation is the direction of sexual attraction and sexual identity refers to how people identify biologically.
The "dirty, wretched object proclaiming his homosexuality to the world" became a symbol of Genet's "queerness" and the cause for his humiliation. However, it could also be viewed as a symbol of his ultimate triumph over the bourgeois values of the 1940's that at that time defined the norms of society. Hebdige argues that the punk movement, whose only crime was revolting against the unfair social order and breaking the existing codes of "normativity", experienced a similar level of discrimination as sexual minorities did. Both the LGBT- and the punk movement refused to accept the standards set by the dominant groups and rebelled against those, who perceived them as subordinate. The world of standardized norms, culture clashes and racial inequality is a major theme in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
This diction was deliberately used by Ellison to create a harsh, uneasy environment, mirroring the circumstances that IM was subject to when he walked into the union meeting. In addition to the violent diction, there is also a plethora of words and phrases that when looked at in a certain light have definite sexual meanings. Many seemingly innocent words have risqué origins or archaic meanings, giving way to a darker and profoundly sexual side of Ellison’s diction. The importance of the reoccurrence of sex and sexual themes to the work as a whole is the conveyance to the reader IM’s feeling complete emasculation by the white men, and on occasion the black men, of his life. In this passage, the emotion is driven forward by the tension created by the pairing of the sexual and violent diction.