Blog Post #12

Grazian's article “The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity,” and The Hangover show how bromance is part of men's lives. In Grazian's article men perform their girl hunt with the guys at bars or nightclubs. Any place that is related to the urban nightlife. In The Hangover, the guys go to Vegas to do a bachelor party. The purpose or the motive is different but it is similar in the way that they would not have been able to do it without the guys. Going to the club by yourself would make you look like a creep and going to Vegas by yourself would not be fun. Being in a group gives them more courage or strength to do anything crazy. The men in both sources also feel the same way about women. They are attracted to them physically and want to have sex with them. But there is also a difference because in the movie the main character is getting married because he is in love. Another similarity we see in the article and in the movie is that bromance also means being a partner in crime. They cover up for Stu in the movie and Grazian states in the article that men share bonds with similar men to get accomplices. The stereotypes of bromances being gay is proved to be just a friendship through these two sources. Overall they both show us that men do build relationships just like women do and that it doesn't take away from their masculinity but instead builds more of it.

Works cited:

Grazian, David. “The Hunt Girl: Urban Nightlife and The Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity”. Men’s Lives. 8th ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner, Ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2010. 320-337. Print.

The Hangover. Dir. Todd Phillips. Perf. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis. Warner Bros, 2009. DVD.

 

Blog post #10

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Four best blog posts

I would like blog posts 4, 5, 7, and 9 to be graded.

Blog post # 9 - Coltrane

When it comes to child care, society believes that the mother is always best. Even though that may not always be true, men don't help prove that. When a father and a mother are together the family and or the children benefit from it, but what happens when the father is just there. Coltrane’s article “Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas” seem to prove that masculinity stands in the way of men being better fathers. Masculinity sometimes make men show preference to a child. "One of the most consistent findings is that men are more involved with sons than with daughters" (439). So being a man in this case affects the children because one is being treated better than the other. Another way masculinity gets in the way is that men tend to be more rough at everything. In the article it says "...Men are more likely than a woman to abuse children or to use inappropriate parenting techniques..." (440). Lastly men are most of the time physically and emotionally absent because they believe a man has to be a good provider to be a good father. That is true but that is why masculinity also gets in the way because they believe men don't need to be emotional. Overall, if masculinity didn't exist in people's minds men might one day be able to be better fathers or be looked upon just as capable as mother's to take good care of children.

Blog post # 8

 Thesis: Men being in "female professions" is not always an advantage.

Williams, Christine L. "The glass Escalator: Hidden advantages for men in the "Female" Professions". Men's lives, 5th ed. S Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, Ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon,  2001, 211-224, Print

      This article talks about what goes on in the work force that isn't seen but it is felt. In other words, unsaid but done. When men enter female professions there is an "escalator effect" which automatically pushes them up to administration. As that may seem positive their is also a negative side to it because men trying to get into "female professions" undergo social pressures. Williams also talks about women facing a "glass ceiling" which keeps them from going into higher positions which is the opposite of how men would be treated. 

This source is useful and credible. Dr. Christine L. Williams is the Department Chair Professor of the Department of Sociology of College Liberal Arts. And we can believe in the research because in the article there are references of where the research was found.

This source has valuable information. It can connect well with the thesis. The article talks about social pressure men undergo before getting into the profession and while being in it.A quote that really backs up my theses is when he says  "Men who enter these professions are considered "failures" or deviants..... these stereotypes do not seem to deter women to the same degree that they deter men from pursuing nontraditional professions" (221). It also talks about men not always wanting to be pushed up into administration. One reason being that they have more responsibilities which they don't want to take on sometimes and the second reason being that what they studied in college to be is something they won't be able to do.

Blog post #7 : Zinn

In this reading it is stated that Chicanos feel they need to prove their masculinity. According to Zinn, "The social science literature views machismo as a compensation for feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness" (25). But, whatever the reason may be behind their way of showing masculinity, people think they are over doing it with the drinking, fighting, and dominance over everything within their family. I believe everyone has their own perspective but won't understand anything until they are being placed in the person's shoes. If i was a Chicano man I would probably do the same thing. The pressure of the outside world would destroy me. If i didn't have power anywhere else except in my household, i think i would also want to feel powerful and take full control to balance out my life. The same way Marable described Blacks as degrading their woman is probably a misunderstanding. They seem to recognize and praise their woman just that their need to be masculine is needed. I believe that physiologically it would help them believe and let society believe that they aren't weak. They also had slavery times where the household was the only place they had a say in because everywhere else they weren't even considered human. Overall i think we view their masculinity as violent and unnecessary but they may view it as simply trying to prove themselves the way they know how to. 

revised final draft research paper #2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_pMe2muPcPDfApPyrf2W6t9mzDbeishnS55eafXijfM/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CKzXu7gF