Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Paul Theroux The Male Myth
In chapter 3 paragraph 2 Paul talks about disliking the idea of a what a men is supposed to be in his opinion. I'm sure that every boy growing up was told to "men up" at one point or other is his life and in high school this seemed to be a prevalent theme throughout my gym classes. In my gym classes i never bothered to work out or play football at one year I'm just the lazy type of person i suppose.When i attempted to play football apparently i wasn't good enough and so i failed. American Football would be probably the first sport that comes into anyone's head when you think of masculinity specially in the United States but I was held back one year even with summer school due to the fact that i was a butterfingers and because i couldn't play football like just as well as the other boys did, but hey at least i was pretty good at Volleyball.
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In chapter 3? Your anecdote is very interesting and I'm sorry to here you had to go to summer school just because your gym teacher didn't think you could be a professional football player. But think about how and why sports are seen as means to bring out 'masculinity' in men? Also as you began to discuss, but this needs a bit more development, it is only certain type of sports that qualify as good masculine training. Why?
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