Sunday, December 9, 2012

Final Essay #2 Final Polish


December 2, 2012

New or expecting Parents

Dear Parents:

We want our sons to be nurturing and our daughters to be confident; in the end we want our children to be well-rounded. But first we need to recognize that at certain times in a child's development, he or she will establish gender ideals for how to be a male or woman. At this time of development a child connects gender to what they see from their surroundings, starting with their family. Traditionally it could be their father in the garage fixing the car and their mother in the kitchen preparing dinner. If a child's development consists of gender restricted rules or images their development will be dramatically different say that of a child surrounded by gender equal images. A child seeing their mother in the garage helping their father with fixing the car or seeing their father in the kitchen helping their mother prepare dinner can have a dramatic change in a child's development. I believe a simple change from traditional gender roles to equal gender roles can benefit development in a child. Traditional genders roles can lead to low self-esteem, depression and emotional disconnection while equal gender roles can lead to successful emotional connections, and better confidence in one’s self.

Most children develop a detailed sense of whether they are boys or girls at a young age. This sense of being "a boy" or "a girl" is called gender identity. For most children this develops somewhere between 18 and 30 months of age. Gender identity is established by whether one has long hair or short hair, whether one wears dresses or pants, and whether one plays with dolls or army action figures. After gender identity is formed, gender stability develops. Barb Durso explains gender stability is the realization that a girl will grow up to be a woman and a little boy is to grow up to be man. It is during this period of gender stability development that many children develop stereotypic behaviors suitable to their gender identity (Durso 2000). As a result girls sometimes refuse to wear pants because "only boys wear pants." This can happen even if the girl has a mother and other female role models who wear pants. On the other hand boys may become strongly interested in playing with toy guns and action figures.

Traditionally, culture has men and women living by different roles and rules that are gender specific. Men go to work to provide for the family, work around the house and expect dinner on the table at six. Women stay home, clean, take care of the kids and have dinner ready by six. Children at a young age are always learning from what they see and hear, they connect what their parents do to how they should do things. Children raised by specific gender guidelines will develop those same rules in adulthood.

A woman is given a set of rules similar to men's, but they still develop an ideal image of what a woman needs to be in a traditional household. For young girls seeing their mother do specific gender oriented jobs creates a gender image. For example, my sister is almost thirty years old and believes that she needs a boyfriend to live a normal life. She refuses to do any job that is oriented towards a masculine role, when asking her to help fix fence at the ranch she declines with answers that give her no confidence in her. She was raised thinking that women can’t do jobs that are masculine.

In a traditional house hold, young boys see their fathers living by detailed rules. These rules can be passed down for generations, from father to son, older brother to younger or even the media, and each one gives their ideals of masculinity. Author Micheal Kimmel in "Bros Before Hos" asks college men for their ideals of what it means to be a man, "never show your feelings, never ask for directions, never give up, never give in, be strong, be aggressive, show no fear, show no mercy... (Kimmel 609)" All of the answers he received describe a collection of attitudes and values that together describe what it means to be a man. These rules govern behavior and have required criteria that help a boy or man to be seen as a tough, strong, traditional figure of masculinity.

Personally I grew up in a family were my father would leave for work every morning at 4 am and my mother stayed home. My mother would take my sister and me to school every day then go home and tend to the house. When school ends my sister and I would get picked up by our mother and go home. Around 4pm. my dad would come home from work and dinner would be ready in an hour. It was like this every week day, it was a system my parents had along with designated jobs that had to be done in order for things to work. During the weekend things didn’t change much, there was still a system to fallow and it still had rules to be fallowed. I would help my father work, fix or build something every weekend, and that’s all I can remember us doing. If it wasn’t putting up fence in the horse paddock it would be building a chicken coop, everything we did was a “man’s job”. Being with my father every day and looking up to him as my main role model he taught me what it takes to be a man and how a man should act. I grew up fallowing the same rules my father grew up with and after watching him fallow these rules I have seen the effects they cause.

A traditional home leads to a difference in adulthood development between genders and disorders. It can have effects on self-esteem, disconnection from emotions, and depression. There are specific patterns of destructive consequences that develop with gender roles. Woman tend to be less confident and dependent on others while men lack the ability to express emotions and or are disconnected from social interaction. Micheal Kimmel says "Boys are more prone to depression, suicidal behavior, and various forms of out-of-control or out-of-touch behaviors than girls are (Kimmel 616)." It’s believed that boys suffer more from the traditional rules of the Guy Code because the code leaves boys disconnected from emotions and prohibited from sharing any form of feelings they have with others (Kimmel 616). For instance, many men restrict their emotions at times when a weak emotion begins to show. This may have positive moments such as the ability to stay cool in a crisis, but a drawback would be the failure to emotionally connect in a relationship. Overall, research has shown that gender roles are often related to larger problems including depression, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, violence, and a variety of other undesirable effects.

To go against the traditional it takes parents who don’t fallow the traditional. Times have changed and so have the roles of the men and woman. The gap between gender roles is narrowing. For fathers who had once worked away from the home start to stay home, they come to value their involvement in their child’s care in ways that reduce gender differences.  Along with fewer men believing that it's better for a woman to stay at home than to work. Men are also taking more responsibility for taking care of the children and household responsibilities, like cooking and cleaning. Noelle Chesley states in her research that men who have lost or quit their jobs have reported to be more sensitive to balancing work and home responsibilities once they returned to work full time. They also became more sympathetic to employees’ family issues and were less likely to downgrade a woman who had taken time off from a career to stay at home with children (Chesley 2011).  As the children see how men and woman can share in jobs and not have certain gender oriented jobs it becomes more socially acceptable. By not being confined to rigid gender roles based on foolish concepts of masculinity and femininity, people can respond to their own desires and abilities.

Traditional gender roles might be old fashioned however they are not outdated; while equal gender roles are relatively new they are a form of change. Change is slow yet change is always needed.  A child needs to see parents as equals in the house hold and in society for real change to take effect in their lives. The difference in development from traditional and equal may not seem as a necessary change, nonetheless we need to see masculinity and femininity roles as the same not as boundaries.

Sincerely,

 

 

 

George Howard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annotated Bibliography

-Chesley, Noelle. "Newswise." Nontraditional Family Roles Promote Gender Equality. University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 16 Sept. 2011. Web. 09 Dec. 2012.

Noleel Chesley is a assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, her article discusses the nontraditional family roles in couples households, and the economic or lifestyle changes in marital relationships that promote gender equality. Chesley interviews 21 couples in 2008, just before the economic downturn hit. Many swapped family roles because the men’s employment situation had changed and men were either not working or were working only part time. Chesley’s study included wives earning at least 80 percent of the household income. Her interviews showed that trading work and family roles was a complete change for both partners.

-Durso, Barb. "Gender Identity." Your Child's Development. N.p., 24 Sept. 2000. Web. 07 Dec. 2012.

Barb Durso is a board certified Pediatrician in private practice in Dallas, Texas. In her article she discusses child development and the stages a child will go through as he or she discovers if they are a man or female. Durso provides information on how most children develop a clear-cut sense of whether they are boys or girls at a young age. Gender identity, gender stability Are two stages that a child will go through and development that many children develop stereotypic behaviors appropriate to their gender identity.

- Kimmel, Michael S. Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. New York:

Harper, 2008. Print.

Micheal Kimmel discusses how in today's society men are expected to act and behave by rules. Kimmel spends time discussing the list of rules and values known as the "guy code" summarized by Robert Brannon, a social psychologist of the 1970s, he explains that this list must be fallowed in order to be seen as a man by society. Kimmel also mentions the "Gender Police," men and women who are always watching judging and waiting for a guy to mess up in being a man just so they can strip him of his of masculinity. The guy code may be intended to make a boy into a strong, emotionless and dependable man, bottling up emotions and trying to be seen as a man by other men and women can be tiresome. Kimmel discusses that all this pressure of trying to be a man can lead to depression, suicidal behavior, and various other forms of emotional disturbed orders.

-Lapp, Joan. "Boys to Men." Boys to Men Conference. Children Now: 1999. Web

Boys to Men talks about the media's role in identity formation among young boys. The media can broaden the images and messages that define masculinity in certain characters, reinforcing society's definition of masculinity as successful, violent and powerful. The media has summarized men as masculine icons; The Jock, The Strong Quiet Type, The Big Shot and as The Action Hero, all Strong manly men that boys want to be. At a young age boys are constantly surrounded by media showing them images of what men should be like. Interviews with boys between the ages of 8-12 talk about how they never see images of "affectionate" men or it was rare to see a male character play a sensitive part. Being surrounded by images of manly men that display emotional separations or violence, young boys believe that is how a real man should be.

 

-Meek,Will. "Male Gender Role." Psychology of Men. Web. Sat. 17 Nov. 2012

This website was created by Will Meek, a licensed psychologist currently head director of Counseling Services at Washington State University, Vancouver. Meek devoted this website to the study of men and masculinity, Meek says to understand masculinity you have to know what gender is, gender is defined as a set of characteristics or traits that are associated with a certain biological sex, male or female. Meek describes the male gender role as a set of attitudes and behaviors similar to the guy code. Researchers have described the rules of masculinity to be attitudes for a man to hold himself to, ways to look, ways to act and present oneself. The researchers argue that the rules are biological from birth and hard wired into a boys DNA, while others disagree and say that the rules are taught from a boy's surroundings and parents. Meek has come to the conclusion from his research that it is a balance between Biological factors and a boys surroundings that effect masculinity.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Formal Paper #2 (Rough Draft #2)


December 2, 2012

New or expecting Parents

Dear Parents:

We want our sons to be nurturing and our daughters to be assertive; in the end we want our children to be well-rounded. But first we need to recognize that at certain times in a child's development, he or she will establish gender ideals for how to be a male or woman. At this time of development a child connects gender to what they see from their surroundings. Traditionally it could be their father in the garage fixing the car and their mother in the kitchen preparing dinner. If a child's development consists of gender restricted rules or images their development will be dramatically different say that of a child surrounded by gender equal images. A child seeing their mother in the garage helping their father with fixing the car or seeing their father in the kitchen helping their mother prepare dinner; can have a dramatic change in a child's development. I believe a simple change from traditional gender roles to an equal gender role can benefit development in a child. Traditional genders roles can lead to low self-esteem, depression and emotional disconnection while equal gender roles can lead to successful emotional connections, and better confidence in one’s self.

Most children develop a detailed sense of whether they are boys or girls at a young age. This sense of being "a boy" or "a girl" is called gender identity, a term that came into the medical texts in the 1950s. For most children this develops somewhere between 18 and 30 months of age. Gender identity is established by whether one has long hair or short hair, whether one wears dresses or pants, and whether one plays with dolls or trucks.  After gender identity is formed, gender stability develops. Gender stability is the realization that a girl will grow up to be a woman and a little boy is to grow up to be man.  It is during this period of gender stability development that many children develop stereotypic behaviors suitable to their gender identity (Durso). As a result girls sometimes refuse to wear pants because "only boys wear pants." This can happen even if the girl has a mother and other female role models who wear pants. On the other hand boys may become strongly interested in playing with toy guns and action movies.

Traditionally, culture has men and women living by different roles and rules that are gender specific. Men go to work to provide for the family, work around the house and expect dinner on the table at six. Women stay home, clean, take care of the kids and have dinner ready by six. Children at a young age are always learning from what they see and hear, they connect what their parents do to how they should do things. Children raised by specific gender guidelines will develop those same rules in adulthood.

 A woman is given a set of rules similar to men's, but they still develop an ideal image of what a woman needs to be in a traditional household. For young girls seeing their mother do specific gender oriented jobs creates a gender image. For example, my sister is almost thirty years old and believes that she needs a boyfriend to live a normal life. She refuses to do any job that is oriented towards a masculine role, when asking her to help fix fence at the ranch she declines with answers that give her no confidence in her. She was raised thinking that women can’t do jobs that are masculine.

In a traditional house hold, young boys see their fathers living by detailed rules. These rules can be passed down for generations, from father to son, older brother to younger or even the media, and each one gives their ideals of masculinity. Author Micheal Kimmel in "Bros Before Hos" asks college men for their ideals of what it means to be a man, "never show your feelings, never ask for directions, never give up, never give in, be strong, be aggressive, show no fear, show no mercy... (609)" All of the answers he received describe a collection of attitudes and values that together describe what it means to be a man. These rules govern behavior and have required criteria that help a boy or man to be seen as a tough, strong, traditional figure of masculinity.

Personally I grew up in a family were my father would leave for work every morning at 4 am and my mother stayed home. My mother would take my sister and me to school every day then go home and tend to the house. When school ends my sister and I would get picked up by our mother and go home. Around 4pm. my dad would come home from work and dinner would be ready in an hour. It was like this every week day, it was a system my parents had along with designated jobs that had to be done in order for things to work.  During the weekend things didn’t change much, there was still a system to fallow and it still had rules to be fallowed.  I would help my father work, fix or build something every weekend, and that’s all I can remember us doing. If it wasn’t putting up fence in the horse paddock it would be building a chicken coop, everything we did was a “man’s job”. Being with my father every day and looking up to him as my main role model he taught me what it takes to be a man and how a man should act. I grew up fallowing the same rules my father grew up with and after watching him fallow these rules I have seen the effects they cause.

A traditional home leads to a difference in adulthood development between genders and disorders. It can have effects on self-esteem, disconnection from emotions, and depression. There are specific patterns of destructive consequences that develop with gender roles. Woman tend to be less confident and dependent on others while men lack the ability to express emotions and or are disconnected from social interaction. Micheal Kimmel says "Boys are more prone to depression, suicidal behavior, and various forms of out-of-control or out-of-touch behaviors than girls are (616)." It’s believed that boys suffer more from the traditional rules of the Guy Code (Kimmel) because the code leaves boys disconnected from emotions and prohibited from sharing any form of feelings they have with others. For example, many men restrict their emotions. This may have positive moments such as the ability to stay cool in a crisis, but a drawback would be the failure to emotionally connect in a relationship. Overall, research has shown that gender roles are often related to larger problems including depression, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, violence, and a variety of other undesirable things (Meek).

To go against the traditional it takes parents who don’t fallow the traditional.  Times have changed and so have the roles of the men and woman. The gap between gender roles is narrowing, significantly. For example, fewer men think that it's better for a woman to stay at home than to work. Men are also taking more responsibility for taking care of the kids and household responsibilities, like cooking and cleaning.  As children see how men and woman can share in jobs and not have certain gender oriented jobs it becomes more socially acceptable.
 
 

 

Monday, November 26, 2012

Final Paper Draft # 2

November 25, 2012

New or expecting Parents

Dear Parents:

Children at a young age learn from their surroundings, connecting gender to what they see. Traditionally it could be their father in the garage fixing the car and their mother in the kitchen preparing dinner. If a child's development consists of gender restricted rules or images their development will be dramatically different say that of a child surrounded by gender equal images. A child seeing their mother in the garage helping their father with fixing the car or seeing their father in the kitchen helping their mother prepare dinner, can have a dramatic change in a child's development. I believe a simple change from traditional gender roles to an equal gender role can benefit development in a child. traditional genders roles can lead to low self-esteem, depression and emotional disconnection while equal gender roles can lead to successful emotional connections, and better confidence in ones self.

traditionally, culture has men and women living by different roles and rules that are gender specific. Men go to work to provide for the family, work around the house and expect dinner on the table at six. Women stay home, clean, take care of the kids and have dinner ready by six. Children at a young age are constantly learning from what they see and hear, they connect what their parents do to how they should do things. Children raised by specific gender guidelines will develop those same rules in adulthood.

in a traditional house hold, young boys see their parents living by specific rules. these rules can be passed down for generations, from father to son, older brother to younger or even the media, and each one gives their ideals of masculinity. Author Micheal Kimmel in "Bros Before Hos" asks college men for their ideals of what it means to be a man, "never show your feelings, never ask for directions, never give up, never give in, be strong, be aggressive, show no fear, show no mercy...(609)" All of the answers he received describe a collection of attitudes and values that together describe what it means to be a man. these rules govern behavior and have a required criteria that help a boy or man to be seen as a tough, strong, traditional figure of masculinity.

Woman are not given a set of rules similar to men's, but they still develop a ideal image of what a woman needs to be in a traditional household. For young girls seeing their mother do specific gender oriented jobs creates a gender image. For example, my sister is almost thirty years old and believes that she needs a boyfriend to live a normal life. She refuses to
do any job that is oriented towards a masculine role, when asking her to help fix fence at the ranch she declines with answers that give her no confidence in herself. She was raised thinking that women cant do jobs that are masculine.  

Being raised in a traditional home leads to a difference in adulthood development between genders and disorders. It can have effects on self esteem, disconnection from emotions, and depression. Woman tend to be less confident and dependent on others while men lack the ability to express emotions and or are disconnected from social interaction. Micheal Kimmel says "Boys are more prone to depression, suicidal behavior, and various forms of out-of-control or out-of-touch behaviors than girls are(616)." Its believed that boys suffer more from the traditional rules of the Guy Code(Kimmel) because the code leaves boys disconnected from emotions and prohibited from sharing any form of feelings they have with others.

Still working on more paragraghs, and trying to find new sources after a slight change on my topic.
(new paragragh idea) equal gender roles in a house. the father can go to work and cook dinner or the mother can go to work and still cook dinner....    


Sunday, November 18, 2012

Annotated Bibliography

- Kimmel, Michael S. Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. New York:

               Harper, 2008. Print.

               Micheal Kimmel discusses how in today's society men are expected to act and behave by rules. Kimmel spends time discussing the list of rules and values known as the "guy code" summarized by Robert Brannon, a social psychologist of the 1970s, he explains that this list must be fallowed in order to be seen as a man by society. Kimmel also mentions the "Gender Police," men and women who are always watching judging and waiting for a guy to mess up in being a man just so they can strip him of his of masculinity. The guy code may be intended to make a boy into a strong, emotionless and dependable man, bottling up emotions and trying to be seen as a man by other men and women can be tiresome. Kimmel discusses that all this pressure of trying to be a man can lead to depression, suicidal behavior, and various other forms of emotional disturbed orders.


- Meek,Will. "Male Gender Role." Psychology of Men. Web. Sat. 17 Nov. 2012

             This website was created by Will Meek, a licenced psychologist currently head director of Counseling Services at Washington State University, Vancouver. Meek devoted this website to the study of men and masculinity, Meek says to understand masculinity you have to know what gender is, gender is defined as a set of characteristics or traits that are associated with a certain biological sex,male or female. Meek describes the male gender role as a set of attitudes and behaviors similar to the guy code. Researchers have described the rules of masculinity to be attitudes for a man to hold himself to, ways to look, ways to act and present oneself. The researchers argue that the rules are biological from birth and hard wired into a boys DNA, while others disagree and say that the rules are taught from a boy's surroundings and parents. Meek has come to the conclusion from his research that is a balance between Biological factors and and a boys surroundings.

-Lapp, Joan. "Boys to Men." Boys to Men Conference. Children Now: 1999. Web

            Boys to Men talks about the media's role in identity formation among young boys. The media can broaden the images and messages that define masculinity in certain characters, reinforcing society's definition of masculinity as successful, violent and powerful. The media has summarized men as masculine icons; The Jock, The Strong Quiet Type, The Big Shot and as The Action Hero, all Strong manly men that boys want to be. At a young age boys are constantly surrounded by media showing them images of what men should be like.Interviews with boys between the ages of 8-12 talk about how they never see images of "affectionate" men or it was rare to see a male character play a sensitive part. Being surrounded by images of manly men that display emotional separations or violence, young boys believe that is how a real man should be.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Proposal #2

Title: Braking the guy code

Author: I am a 19 year old boy, i grew up on a horse ranch working everyday with my father.  Ever sense i could remember i was waking up early to help my dad around the ranch, may it be hanging hot-wire, digging post wholes, fixing fences, building chicken coups or just mowing the lawns. Growing up my father taught me what it takes to be a man, he never said "this is how a man does things." but everyday i learned from watching or doing, just like my father did from his father. I learned the rules of being a man from him and i was expected to fallow these rules. I never noticed until recently but i never did the same chores my sister, my sister helped my mother around the house cleaning or doing laundry. i grew up doing "mans work".

Date: Times are changing, from a time when being a man meant you had to fallow a strict list of rules, to now when its okay to not fallow the list of rules and show emotion.

Topic: Micheal Kimmel's "Bros Before Hos: The Guy Code" and its effects

Exigence: In Micheal Kimmel's "Bros Before Hos: The Guy Code"  Kimmel explains the rules in being a man, how boys are taught these rules, the effects if one doesn't follow the rules he will be ridiculed and be striped of the tittle of MAN and then Kimmel discusses the  psychological development and effects of the Guy Code.  I agree with everything Kimmel says, i agree with the rules of the guy code i agree with what happens if a bot doesn't fallow those rules and the long term psychological development.

Intended Audience: college students and interested readers about the effects of the Guy code rules.

Purpose: To inform skeptical people of the effects that the strict rules the guy code are do effect every boy.

Ethos: I'm a 19 year old male, my father taught me what it means to be a man. I grew up trying to fallow the rules behind being a man, I personally know what happens if you don't fallow the rules set by the guy code.

Pathos: I have countless stories as a kid watching my father work and thinking to my self "when i grow up i want to be just like may dad", being just like my father would make me a real man. But out of all of these memories one is stuck in my mind, I was 13 and helping my dad put up wire horse fence. I would try my best to pull the fence tight against the posts, while my dad would nail it down. For my dad it only took him one swing with the hammer to hide the nail in the post, so long story short, my grip on the fence slipped causing my dad's hand holding the nail to move at the last moment in which his hand with the hammer smashed his fingers. I was terrified, expecting the wrath of god to rain down on my at that moment, but with his fingers turning black and purple right in front of my eyes all he did was gab another nail and ask me "do you think you can hold the fence this time?", he showed no emotion towards the pain or me for messing up. In my mind he was the toughest, strongest and more of a man i have ever seen or met at the time. I have seen my father break the guy code very few times and that makes me think he is even more of a man for doing that.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

RA# 3

Rhetorical Analysis # 3

Title: "Bros Before Hos":The Guy Code

Author: Michael Kimmel

Date: 2008

Topic: Author Michael Kimmel talks about the strict code that young boys have to live by, a code for masculinity, its a day by day check list on how to be a true man in the eyes of other men. Kimmel investigates the values, rites and expectations young boys have to live up to in today's society.

Analysis of Argument

Exigence: Kimmel explains that the "Guy Code" is a collection of rules, traits and values that make a boy seen as a man in today's society. The rules all add up onto a list that is used by almost all men in society to judge a man.

Intended Audience: Kimmel writes to inform the readers, may it be college students or everyday people reading the article in a paper or journal. The intended audience know less about the topic because of the facts and detail kimmel goes into explaining his points.

Purpose: I believe the purpose of this article is to engage the audience and to inform them about the strict rules society pushes on young boys.

Claims: "This is "The Guy Code," the collection of attitudes, values, and traits that together composes what it means to be a man(609)."

Main Evidence: To support his claim Kimmel uses information from college campuses and high schools asking young men what they think it means to be a man and the answers are,  "Don't cry... never show your feelings, never ask for directions, never give up, never give in, be strong, be aggressive, show no fear, show no mercy, get rich, get even...(609)." Kimmel quotes social psychologist Robert Brannon for his summarizing of the four basic rules of masculinity, "No sissy stuff, Be a big wheel, be a sturdy oak, Give'em hell(610)." The four rules almost match exactly with the results Kimmel got from the colleges and high schools.  KImmel then talks about how young boys learn these traits and how they are known by every male, "Guys hear the voices of the men in their lives-fathers, coaches, brothers, grandfathers, uncles, priests-to inform their ideas of masculinity(611)." Its the figures we all grew up with that we learn how to be a man from. Interviews from students in a Sociology of Masculinity class bring up the topic that " Other guys constantly watch how well we preform. Our peers are a kind of "gender police," (612)."  The consent effort to walk, talk, eat, and every mannerism is to be seen as a true man.

Rhetorical Analysis:

Writer's Strategy 1: Description
Writer's Strategy 2: Exemplification
Writer's Strategy 3: Cause and Effect

Reader's Effect 1: Kimmel explains the rules of the guy code, he explains what the rules do to a young boy and how it effects how the boy is seen in society. The facts and details that Kimmel use are all true, me being a boy  can really relate to the guy code.

Reader's Effect 2: Kimmel interviews students around the same age as me and the answer they give are the same i would of given. Every case or example used in this article the reader can relate to.

Reader's Effect 3:  Kimmel explains how the guy code is influenced by fathers, grandfathers, coaches, and masculine figures in a young boys life, the figures form ideals of what it is to be a man. The effects of the guy code can cause a loss in emotions and separation disorders.

My Response:

I found "Bros Before Hos" to be a shockingly true article, everything Kimmel used i can relate to. I grew up with my father, the classic tough emotionless man teaching me how to be strong and self reliable, but i was never pushed to be a tough unemotional man. Just after years of looking up to my father as a hero i have tuned into him. When Kimmel talks about the "Gender Police"  and how every man feels like they are being watched, and the moment they step over the line that defines malignity and femininity they will be striped of their tittle of being man is correct. Every man wants to be seen as tough, strong and dependable, but litter in life i hope the guy code isn't a clear defined line of rules.

Monday, October 29, 2012

RA #2

Title: The Death of Macho
Author: Reihan Salam
Date: 2009
Topic: The era of male dominance in the working and economic force is coming to an end, along with the effects of male unemployment and female employment.

Analysis of Argument

Exigence: Salam explains how the idea of macho is fading from today's society with high male unemployment. Salam believes there are two choices to be made, adaption or Resistance for the roles of males in today's new society.

Intended Audience: Anyone who may be involved in finance along with scholarly audiences,   because of the reasoning and details in the text.

Purpose: To bring light onto how the ideals of males being the primary breadwinners in a family are changing, and Salam mentions the there will be a conflict for the position of power between males and females in the coming years.

Claims:  "The era of male dominance is coming to an end... the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental hit in power from men to women(629)."

Main Evidence: Author Reihan Salam claims that economic power and status is changing from men to woman, Salam uses many examples in his article. First of all Salam talks about the recession and its impact on men, "Unbelievably disproportionate impact that the current crisis is having on men...so much that the recession in now known to some economists as the "he-cession(630)." Salam is simply saying that men are reviving the main effects of job loss and economic hardship from the recession, Such as "80 percent of job losses in the United States since November have fallen on men(630)." Salam also predicts that "by the end of 2009, the global recession is expected to put as many as 28 million men out of work worldwide(630)."  And things are to only get worse for men as the recession continues, but as man's status fail women's status gain power. The change in Traditional gender roles is another topic Salam brings up, "women were promised economic security in exchange for the state's entrenchment of male economic power(632)." meaning women are gaining more power in roles were men originally had power.

Rhetorical Analysis:
Writer's Strategy 1:(Ethos) The author uses facts and terms that help the reader understand the authors concerns and point of view, for example the male macho.

Writer's Strategy 2: (Logos)The author explains the role of men in society and then compares it to the role men have now after the recession and how women have changed from house wives to main breadwinners in today's families.

Writer's Strategy 3: (Pathos)The author uses vivid language, but connects to the reader very little on an emotional level.

Reader's Effect 1: The authors tone made the reader believe what the author was talking about and helped the reader see from the authors point of view his concerns. The authors resources and facts helped reinforce his ideas and credibility.

Reader's Effect 2:  The authors us of Strong facts and clear information helped the reader understand the article, understand the authors logic behind his reasons and supporting evidence.

Reader's Effect 3: The author used very little Pathos to connect to the reader, but the article didn't need that connection to the reader. The facts along gave the reader a feel of confection.

My Response
This article talks about how the male macho is dying from today's standards of how the world works. I agree with the author Salam, i have noticed more women in power and i encourage the change. One thought i had while reading this was the author had no real opinions on what he was saying, he only gave facts and never encouraged the change or apposed the change. The author didn't use any emotional form of writing to show the reader his opinions.