Link to paper #1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yKvvILfRzjpQ4_SfbRrXTZLZ3nIO-9SpWM856LuLuJw/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMvzz4IL

Blog Post #3: "The Male Myth" by Paul Theroux

The one thing that stood out to me in "The Male Myth" by Paul Theroux was when he said that men cannot be writers. He states this because he believes that it's mostly for women because it includes alot of time, patience,  imagination, and so forth. Writing is requires patience and time, and some men don't have these qualities in which they can't be writer. He also states that men prove their masculinity by Americas traditional ways, such as hunting animals or other manly things. He also says that men are interested in journalism because they like to explore and discover new things, while on the other hand writing is just sitting and using your imagination.

Blog Post #2: Response to Lorber's "Night to His Day"

In the reading "Night to His Day" talks about how society views genders. For example, she explains how she saw a well suited man with a 1 year-old child on the train. Everyone in the train were astonished and kind of happy to see a father figure. If a woman was placed in this scene, then it wouldn't get the same reactions. The surprising thing was that the child was dressed up as a "boy", but it had earnings on and pink socks and this showed some gender differences. Another example of how genderism affects society is the way the gender behaves. Behavior is the most important thing, for example if a woman acts horrible then the society with look at her in a whole different way. In Society, everyone has a different perspective of everyone and in genderism it depends on how you act, dress, and so forth. Judith Lorber also states the different genders, one example would be transvestites. Transvestites are often males who learn to act and dress like the opposite sex. My opinion is that society sees a big difference in genders even if we don't realize it.

Blog Post #1: How to Build a Man by Anne Fausto- Sterling

Living in the modern world, men are made not born. With all this futuristic technology, every thing is possible such as making a man. I believe that if a child is not borned with the right sexuality then there are a few problems that can happen. Such as if the child stays that way it could create problems in the future when the child gets married or even when it starts junior high school. From there the docters think its "correct" to change its unknown sexuality and put it in one category of the two (masculine and femine). Usually men have issues growing up if they don't feel "great" in their sexuality and that leads to alot of changes. Sure men can have it fixed, but then he is made not born. Another example is that if some young children feel they find happiness playing with dolls and doing what the opposite gender does. Some parents get concerned because they have always had a mentally that boys like cars and girls like dolls, if they do the opposite somethings wrong. So the parents decide to change that and put their child on the right track and the boy is now playing with cars and doing what the male gender does. So again, men are made not born.