You could definitely say that Crews and Theroux are apart of
the same conversation. Both men are discussing the issue that men are held to
this stupid standard of “being a man”. Terry Crews is responding to the problem
of men’s gender roles. Crews goes on about how men are constantly being held to
this gender standard of “manliness” and “manhood”. Crews touches on how a lot
of men think they are more valuable than women because that’s just the way
society has been forever. Men have to be strong providers, manly, protective,
and brave. Or so society is making us believe. These kinds of gender roles are
what make women think we are inferior. Crews says that everyone is valuable in
themselves; so the moment we all accept ourselves as valuable equals is the moment
that gender roles won’t be such a dilemma.
Paul Theroux very negatively responds to men and how they
are wrongly being taught how to grow up into manly men who drink beer, and
watch football. Theroux also touches on how women are brought up in the same
sense: Being told to ask “Do you like my dress?” and to be “ladylike”. Even
today, in 2015, we are dealing with (not as intensely) the same gender roles we
dealt with hundreds of years ago. Theroux say “I found it impossible to admit
to myself that I wanted to be a writer. It was my guilty secret, because being
a writer was incompatible with being a man”. Why do men have to feel like this?
Why is this SO wrong? Because its been a standard for men to do “manly” jobs
and hobbies. I think it’s about time gender roles don’t play such a dense part
in society.
Both Crews and Theroux talk about similar things, such as men now a days in this society are taking manhood to a different perspective. Theroux's article was more of how feminism scares him because he believes women are better than women. He believes men are being raised wrong and seeing manhood in whole other perspective. He thinks men are being raised to the point where they have to be tough or else they will be seen as weak. And Crews believes there should be gender equality in the world, the women should do her part and the men should do theirs but also help each other.He does not believe in gender roles, he is more of a person who believes in helping out the person, instead of having roles in life according to your gender. What they have in common is that they both talk about how now a days in this society manhood is seen differently. They both believe men are being forced to look, do certain things in this world in order to fit in.
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