masuclinity and feminism- alex adame

I found the “Terry Crews: Manhood, Feminism and the mindset that leads to rape” to be very intriguing. Terry Crews talks about how feminism and masculinity have standards. He explains how many guys are afraid to show basically any kind of weakness, including him. He says how children are affected by this as well as adults. In his mind he sees masculinity as someone who shows strength and who is above others. This makes men think that it’s okay to make women feel like property. It gives the idea that men can disrespect women with abuse, rape, or other things because that makes men feel superior to women when in reality it just makes women want to feel like men aren’t need. Terry crews talks about “man code” which means he shouldn’t be putting out what he thinks in his book about how men are afraid to admit they are afraid. Terry Crews knows “man code” isn’t going to make anything right for example, rape. In the end he feels that men and women are both needed and it’s up to them to show the younger generation what it means to be a man or a woman.  I really enjoyed this video because you could tell how passionate Terry Crews felt about this subject. The reading kind of went hand in hand with the video. Paul Theroux talks about how masculinity is defined. Paul shows his hatred towards it because it personally effected his life. Paul Theroux was also afraid to come out and be a writer because it was seen as unmanly. He talks about how much he hates being a man because of the standards society hold for them.  I enjoyed this article as well because he also shows how much passion he has towards masculinity and how he’d wish for something different.

I felt that the “Terry Crews: Manhood, Feminism, and the mindset that leads to rape” video and “The Male Myth” article by Paul Theroux both go with how society is effecting how people think of feminism and masculinity. The “they say” they are referring to is how society defines a man and a woman.