Crews & Theroux

    Terry Crews who is a former football player and also an actor steps up and talks about the touchy subject of feminism, men’s expectation, rape and the “man code”. He says that these gender norms brought upon us are set by society and over time they become more drastic. He even gives examples of his own son and his shame of being scared and how he actually explained to his son that being scared from something in a movie isn’t a bad thing, that its okay to be scared and honest with your self. There is no shame and it doesn’t make you any less of a man or even any more of a woman just because you are scared. He claimed that this situation was a wake up call and how he needs to explain that to him self from time to time as well because society gets you so caught up in how you’re suppose to act and how men and woman are suppose to live. His main points are that being a feminist isn’t saying that woman are more important or powerful than men. He is saying that feminists are promoting gender EQUALITY and nothing less.

Theroux is a writer that goes into depth about how the expectations of a man and how they should act are instilled into young boys growing up all over the world. Boys young and older are constantly told to man up and be a man when they do something that isn’t “manly” and is girly.

I believe both Crews and Theroux are addressing the same problem and go about it in the same kind of manner. They both are giving examples of how men should act are being drilled into boys heads at a very young age. The “they say” that they are talking about is how society is changing up and making stereotypes for how a man should be and to change every ones views, and if you are a man and act differently than that then you are a pussy or a female.