Wai Sing Lam
November 18th,2010
Annotated Bibliography Research Paper# 12
Preliminary Thesis: Men need each other to create a heterosexual bond by using men as wing-man, in hopes to receive the attention and interests of available single women.
Appelbaum,Aliza. "The Dating Wing-man.Helping the Lovelorn Is All In a Day’s Work." Forward Newspaper. Forward Newspaper, 13 July 2010. Web. 20 Nov. 2010.
This article shows the usage of a gifted born talented man, who uses his power to portray a good role model. Aaron Ellner is described for his uniqueness in pair matching for men looking for that special someone. This reading brings various points that include description of how, Aaron started out as a match maker and how he has changed so much till this day. This article, describes the positive aspect of how men are good matchmakers and how experience Aaron at doing this.
In the article, from Forward Newspaper, this article allows me to understand what wing-man do. This source is indeed useful in helping me prove the point of why I agree that men need the use of wing-man and moral support for female interaction. This source is very few out of many that are reliable. The source is reliable in allowing me to see how affective a wing-man can be to obtain women. This source is objective in pointing out a goal of information about a man and the use of his wing-man ability to help other men bring attraction of women.
This online article, is useful in helping me with my upcoming research paper. This source is useful in helping me find evidence on how wing-men are a key part to female interaction. This source will enable me to back on my thesis and my argument agreement on men needing wing-men to succeed. This article will allow me to bring my agreement about men need wing-men for assistance if they can't do it themselves. This article has made me want to remain with this topic more, because I want to discover more deeply about the affective of wing-men when it comes to meeting the women face to face.
Grazian, David. "The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity." Symbolic Interaction. Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. 30.2 (2007: 320-337. Print.
This article shows, men dominant, empowerment, social behavior and physical interest in women. This reading shows pursuit in finding different women using wing-man and grouping together as a group for unity. This article continue to talk about men desire to find the sexy women with a great personality that a lot of men want. The valid point of the reading was to tell a story about what measures and what kind of things guys do to get with women. Whether it be playing it cool or going direct into female interaction. This article is used in hopes to give examples of how young men act and do things in modern day society today.
In the article, "The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity," the author bring up very good key points. The author bring great examples about guys moral support for each other. While, at the same time the author talks about positive use of wing-men. Wing-men are seen as useful for distraction among girl pals, while the target fall for the trap. This source is useful in helping my research paper. This source is very helpful, because it is very detailed about men and their bond with other men. The source is very reliable, because it was published and it shares a point that I agree on. The point being that men do these stuff like moral support and wing-men usage to get women. It men nature to do whatever it takes to get with someone.
This source will be one of the strongest source for my research paper. This source is very helpful to me, because the source give very deep detail about men behavior in social life. Using wing-men as one of it points to backup on its affectness in the article. It will be used as one of my supporting evidence to back up my agreement on wing-men important role for men. It will be used for my research paper to help make my other support points better and to help me understand the importance of wing-men. Reading what wing-men do for guys make me want to keep finding more and more information about how good wing-men and moral support can be very helpful to people like me. It makes me want to obtain a wing-men more, because I've been searching for a little help with attraction to women.
Newman,Andrew.A. "Wing-men in the Wings." New York Times. New York Times, 25 March 2007. Web. 20 Dec, 2010.
This article shows and shares his ability to any men globally with women troubles. Mr. Mavlov is the dating coach who specialize in getting women. He uses what learned from his own experience to other men. Mr. Mavlov has used his knowledge of women to help other men globally by posting publicly about assistant to single men. The point in this article is to use a bit of information about what wing-men do and how it is shared globally to other men. This article symbolize the help of using wing-men to help men built confident towards female attraction.
In the article, from the New York Times for the 2007 issue, this online article help me see what the writer is trying to do. The writer is showing good intend by using one example of how wing-men can play affective roles to other men. This source is very useful, because it gives various viewpoint from the wing-men point and the other man the wing-man has befriend. This article to my paper, because it gives the information to support my thesis about my agreement toward men needing wing-men. It gives me a good argument towards the positive aspect of how men do well with the use of having a wing-men. This objective is Objective, because it talks about what the wing0men wants to achieve and what goal he wants for other men.
This online article helps me back up my research paper. This source allows me to use this as a supporting evidence to why wing-men is a must needed requirement. This source was very helpful in letting me know wing-men are used everywhere and daily. This source will become very handy in become one of my body paragraph and main points for my research paper. When I have fully put my evidence together it will become strong and effective in my paper. Doing study of men being wing-men and sometimes women being wing-women has allow me to find more understand of wing-men job. It makes me want to look for more information about the use of wing-men to find women.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Coltrane Reflection
Wai Sing Lam
November 19th,2010
Coltrane Reflection
Coltane dicuss the role where mother and father are the parents who take care of their children. In Coltrane, paradox reality he sees that father are doing the job as the stayhome parent, where women are the provider for their family. According to Scott Coltrane article, "Fathering:Paradoxes,Contradictions,and Dilemas, Coltrane says, "We do know that when fathers share child care and housework with their wives, employed mothers escape total responsibility for family work, evaluate the division of labor as more fair, are less depressed, and enjoy higher levels of marital satisfaction."(p.441) Coltrane is saying women are at work making money and taking long hours. While the father, stay home and built a strong bond with his son mostly, and sometimes with his daughter. The father become the one who teaches, the son to fullfil duties and be a good boy. While the mother spend hours at work, thus having less time for responsiblitiy in taking care of their children. It's like the fathers are taking the role of the mother as birthgiver. They're taking the role of the mother, while mother are taking roles as the father.
November 19th,2010
Coltrane Reflection
Coltane dicuss the role where mother and father are the parents who take care of their children. In Coltrane, paradox reality he sees that father are doing the job as the stayhome parent, where women are the provider for their family. According to Scott Coltrane article, "Fathering:Paradoxes,Contradictions,and Dilemas, Coltrane says, "We do know that when fathers share child care and housework with their wives, employed mothers escape total responsibility for family work, evaluate the division of labor as more fair, are less depressed, and enjoy higher levels of marital satisfaction."(p.441) Coltrane is saying women are at work making money and taking long hours. While the father, stay home and built a strong bond with his son mostly, and sometimes with his daughter. The father become the one who teaches, the son to fullfil duties and be a good boy. While the mother spend hours at work, thus having less time for responsiblitiy in taking care of their children. It's like the fathers are taking the role of the mother as birthgiver. They're taking the role of the mother, while mother are taking roles as the father.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Masculinity and Health Research Paper Final Draft
Wai Sing Lam
November 14, 2010
Masculinity and Health Research Paper First Draft
Men and Women are raised by their parents to believe and feel a certain way. For men, their manliness is put to question by the determination of who is more superior in the relationship between men and women. Men hope to be the more superior over women by focusing on their physical appearance and by showing off their strong and confident personality. This has led to men having shorter life span that causes high death rate to happen. Also, allowing men to focus on their sexual appeal to attract women. Men have lack their interest in their well being and have let themselves face dangerous potential health risks men face. Men have not made the right decision, thus causing many men to show no concern for they own health. In the 2009, Journal of Men’s Health, Men have become focus on their body and physical appearance, in order to please and seduce women and at the same thing be tough enough to fight off bullies. Thus, men have risk putting their health in place, because men are putting themselves in danger of potential injuries. Men focus 100% on body building and 0% on health, because men feels health is nothing too concerning for them. It is, because health isn't an important factor to men that women have lived longer than men. Men desire to show domination over women has caused many men to risk their own health. The more men focus on their body the more likely; they’re going to risk their health through the intent workout they have planned. The more time men focus on their body the more likely he will injure himself. Men having a lot of focus on their physical appearance and risking their life is one of the many negative aspects of being a man
Men relied on their confident personality and physical appearance to impress women and men that they have failed to realize the short life they are starting to develop. Many men have started to work their body in the gym in order to built physical appearance along with their personality, because they wanted to show off how strong and how good they look. While many men focus on their physical appearance they have lack the aspect of taking any advantage towards seeking professional medical health. Men and Women are given equal rights to seek medical help, but very few men have taken the chance to seek help. In Oystein Holter article, Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View, talks about men with disabilities and how they are the only ones who want professional medical help. Men that are muscular built do not seek any support or need for professional medical help. Since, these well-built men have no intention of needing any medical help, since they feel it is not needed and it’s not a manly thing to worry about. According to Oystein Gullag Hotler article, “Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View” Hotler said, “A good starting point would be to investigate the concept of being 'able-bodied', and how this masculine notion historically informed ideas of health and gender in the information of modern society, or, rather, misinformed them, according to current research e.g. handicap.” “It is primarily men who are able bodied, soldier material.” “On basic level, being able-bodied means not going to the doctor.” “If able-bodiedness is part of hegemonic masculinity, the chances are that men will be less proactive in terms of health.”(p. 102). What Hotler is saying is that disabled men look for medical help, while men that are muscular built are questioned by other men about their toughness. Men who are muscular built men see worrying about health something unimportant and unmoral or not even worth worrying about, because to them it doesn't benefit them with social life. Men believe that their confident personality and physical appearance for superiority over women is important, But, another cause for negativity towards men health is their sexual appeal attraction that could endanger men health and life.
Many men have pursuit in their journey to obtain a good physical image and a great personality to obtain advantage of being a man. But, the cause of this goal is deathly, because men bring on sexual appeal only to transfer sexual transmitted infections or STI in both the man and the women through sex. Men have focus on working their body and their personality in order to flirt with women in hopes to get them into bed for sex. When men have successfully perform their sexual desires to women, they lack the focus about what potential diseases lurk in their body now. Men often don't use protection, so there don't know what diseases they have. Men who do have transmitted diseases don't even bother getting tested or in fact care about health that much that they would pass the disease on to someone else. Many men who are unaware of the disease would continue to have sex with women without realizing the fact that they are passing a dangerous disease on to them. According to Shari, L. Dworkin in her book, Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness she said, “In that work, we analyzed how newspapers conflated sexual act, risk, and identity, which worked to disseminate erroneous health information about HIV/AIDS risks and constructed different moral orders depending on the specific interaction between social identities and masculinities (e.g. marginalized/subordinated and dominant) that each athlete offered (according to their race, class, sexuality, gender).”(p. 67-68) Dworkin is saying that athletic men dream about, what type man they want to be depending on their race, class, and so forth. Dworkin continues to mention about how athletic men have show different treatment of women depending on race and class in order to get them in bed. Dworkin does mention that some of these athletic men do care about safe sex to prevent from getting HIV or Aids. Safe sex is much more important, than men focusing on body building to attract women for sex. Men desire for a strong physical appearance and on confident personality to show superiority over women, allowed men to work hard to bring sexual appeal towards women. Another affect towards men health is the lack of focus younger men have when they are raised by their parents.
Men started focus about physical appearance and personality in order to star domination at a very young age. At a young age during their teen years they are taught to be tough and do manly things like be on a sport team. Their parent teaches them to be strong and to take big risk in life, thus allowing many young men to focus on family goals and not their own health. Men taking risks is a sign of family goals, because men must take dangerous risk in order to show honor and respect for their family. Also, it means to show how tough and how much heart you have in the family. In the Ian Ban article, “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered” Ban said, “Attention must be paid to the development of interventions that are sensitive to the aspirations, attitudes, and behaviors of young boys and adolescents. The focus on young men must continue into adulthood, with interventions targeting other community settings, such as leisure facilities, sports grounds and working environments.”(p.12). Ian is saying that young men should be a main concern and focus by the parents and by the people. He feels young men are special and would continue to be look upon as unique and dominant gender if something is done. Ian feels if men continue as the superior being over women, then they would lack the concern for their health and eventually die faster. He is worried about all the young men who are suffering at such a young age. If men could to be the superiority being over women by physical appearance and personality, then health problem will continue, thus leading into men facing potential or permanent health problem overtime.
Men desire to be superior over women and hopes for a better personality will allow them to suffer from many dangerous health problems. Men approaching adulthood will feel various changes and health risk that they fail to realize, when they become an adult. During adulthood or approaching adulthood men enlist in the army to serve their country. Men who become part of this great fight become known as a hero and more importantly a man to be worship and loved. But, during the battlefield fighting a battle isn't a walk in the park. It is dangerous and deathly, since many of the male population end up dying and fail to live their full life. In battle many young or older men end up facing dangerous obstacles and would also face very dangerous or dangerous health problems. Some problems including being sick by throwing up or having itches that won't go away. Other health problem for men can also be costly to prove yourself as a real man and a soldier. These health problem could be forever lasting sickness or it could even lead to men losing a body part, which could most likely be an arm or leg. Some of these men who take heavy amount of injures would be rush to the hospital to get checked out. In Susie Kershaw book, Impotent warriors Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity Kershew said, He wanted it to be read and wanted others to make sense of it; indeed, he suggested that he would be willing to undergo an invasive internal exam in order to discover the secrets his body holds.”(p.72). What Susie is saying is that this soldier only worried about his health when it came to him being injured. The quote also says, the soldier wanted the doctors to do test in order to found out what he is made of and if he could stand the battle. Even, after a long battle men still show a positive and confident personality, while at the same time show physical appearance of toughness for superiority over women. But, another issue men face is making bad decisions about their own health, which causes them to die.
Decision making is one of the most important thing in everyday life. Men make good and bad decision in hopes to improve themselves, while at the same decides if that is the best way to go. Men lack of decision is the cause of men lack of awareness, on the health problems they could have affect them, as time moves on. Men who make these bad decision end up with bad habits such as using or dealing drugs, which get them high enough to be violence or even commit suicide. Men who do drugs are mostly adults or teenagers looking for a way to relief stress. But, men who end up doing drugs don't realize the health problems they would suffer if their continue to harass and overuse drugs. Other bad decision including overdrink of alcohol which leads to men physical abusing women and doing things they can;t event remember themselves. People who continue to drink is a sign of bad health as it has the chance to cause cancer. Bruce Campbell in the article, “The success of Men's Educational Group Appointments” Bruce wrote, “Men do not visit physicians as often as women, and tend to under-report their symptoms. Men are more likely to abuse alcohol, use tobacco produces, and often make unhealthy lifestyle decisions, espcially while male bonding.”(p.166). Campbell is saying men do not see doctors very often to know what is wrong with them. He continues to say how men are more stubborn and bad at making the right decision, since many men would end up using drugs substance and alcohol to solve life problems. Men decision to make these chooses are 100% true, because a lot of men who have social life problem use drugs, alcohol, or violence to vent out all they anger, without realizing what physical harm it could do to them. Decision making is a key point to men focus on their personality and their appearance to look strong and cool, but the true cause of superiority by men is their muscular built body or physical appearance to show how much of a real man they are.
The man body is what makes many men seen themselves as the superior force, while they also develop their personality to obtain and sweet talk women, by showing off their well built muscular hardwork body. Every man wants to have a six pack or muscular body to show off toward women. While, many men focus on work out they lack the time to focus any attention on health. Eating too much for men might not be a problem, but lurking women in with their heavy built appearance might be the problem. Men's who focus on they body lack the time to care about their body if they become part of a sport team or if their trying to be built to handle a bully problem. What makes being built a health problem is the challenge of being on a sport team. Like if men are part of a basketball team or football team they will be risking themselves for injury, because other men's would constantly ram and run each other to obtain the ball to score. This violence will allow the body to feel physical cramps or soaring pains in certain areas. Other men's also want the muscular built body out of jealousy, because they see other men get women and be respect by their fellow man. In Natalie Darko article, “Get up and shut up and stop being a fanny””Rugby Union Men and Their Suppression Of Body Anxiety” Darko talked about a student named Pat who said, “My body, my lifting is nothing exceptional on this team, this is part of the reason I train so much; two, three times a day. I want the other boys to look at my body and make compliments. When you don't measure up they will let your know.”(p.335). Darko is explaining how skinner men work out for the power to show off, but doesn't explain how being fit is not for everyone. Pat symbolize a man who follows in someone else footstep in order to achieve his goal, but with the cost of risking his own health in the progress. Men who want to be muscular built are sometimes not capable of handling the training and suffer body harm or event end up damaging a certain body part. Men take the risk of doing something new, but also leads to physical damaging someone health in the progress. Men's determination for physical appearance and personality power over women with muscular builting is the main point to why many men suffer health problems. It is, because they is a health problem where the men body can't withstand the training and therefore, risk the chance of not fully recovering from such an injury.
Men have focus their desire for gender domination though the power of showing off the strong and hardwork of their physical fit appearance and their outgoing personality, while at the same time risk their health and also risk their body to look in a way they really aren't meant to look, because they have been persuade to look that way for someone else to notice and compliment them. Men have been the center of many health problems for many years. In the 2009, Journal of Men’s Health, men have set their goals to body builting in the gym in order for showing off privileges. But, have ultimately put themselves in harm of passing on potential diseases. Men have been the one working hard to have a good physical appearance and good personality to get with women, without seeing the first important thing men should focus on. The health of men should be all men main purpose, before they work up to having a built body and before having a good personality. Health is the most important, because it symbolize the great job that all people did to take care of themselves. Many men believe that worrying about health wasn't a manly thing to worry about, but that's a lie, because without the good will of health once can't exist or function properly to do anything, espically work out to have that six pack that every man wants.
Worked Cited
Holter, Oystein. “Men, Gender and Health 2009-the Norwegian View.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 1. (2009): 101-104. Print.
Dworkin, Shari L. Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Print.
Banks, Ian. “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 2. (2009): 10-13. Print.
Kilshaw, Susie. Impotent warriors Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Print.
Campbell, Bruce. “The Success of Men's Educational Group Appointments.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 3. (2009): 166-168. Print.
Darko, Natalie. “Get up, Shut Up and Stop Being a Fanny”: Rugby Union men and their suppression of body anxiety.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 4. (2009): 331-337. Print.
November 14, 2010
Masculinity and Health Research Paper First Draft
Men and Women are raised by their parents to believe and feel a certain way. For men, their manliness is put to question by the determination of who is more superior in the relationship between men and women. Men hope to be the more superior over women by focusing on their physical appearance and by showing off their strong and confident personality. This has led to men having shorter life span that causes high death rate to happen. Also, allowing men to focus on their sexual appeal to attract women. Men have lack their interest in their well being and have let themselves face dangerous potential health risks men face. Men have not made the right decision, thus causing many men to show no concern for they own health. In the 2009, Journal of Men’s Health, Men have become focus on their body and physical appearance, in order to please and seduce women and at the same thing be tough enough to fight off bullies. Thus, men have risk putting their health in place, because men are putting themselves in danger of potential injuries. Men focus 100% on body building and 0% on health, because men feels health is nothing too concerning for them. It is, because health isn't an important factor to men that women have lived longer than men. Men desire to show domination over women has caused many men to risk their own health. The more men focus on their body the more likely; they’re going to risk their health through the intent workout they have planned. The more time men focus on their body the more likely he will injure himself. Men having a lot of focus on their physical appearance and risking their life is one of the many negative aspects of being a man
Men relied on their confident personality and physical appearance to impress women and men that they have failed to realize the short life they are starting to develop. Many men have started to work their body in the gym in order to built physical appearance along with their personality, because they wanted to show off how strong and how good they look. While many men focus on their physical appearance they have lack the aspect of taking any advantage towards seeking professional medical health. Men and Women are given equal rights to seek medical help, but very few men have taken the chance to seek help. In Oystein Holter article, Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View, talks about men with disabilities and how they are the only ones who want professional medical help. Men that are muscular built do not seek any support or need for professional medical help. Since, these well-built men have no intention of needing any medical help, since they feel it is not needed and it’s not a manly thing to worry about. According to Oystein Gullag Hotler article, “Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View” Hotler said, “A good starting point would be to investigate the concept of being 'able-bodied', and how this masculine notion historically informed ideas of health and gender in the information of modern society, or, rather, misinformed them, according to current research e.g. handicap.” “It is primarily men who are able bodied, soldier material.” “On basic level, being able-bodied means not going to the doctor.” “If able-bodiedness is part of hegemonic masculinity, the chances are that men will be less proactive in terms of health.”(p. 102). What Hotler is saying is that disabled men look for medical help, while men that are muscular built are questioned by other men about their toughness. Men who are muscular built men see worrying about health something unimportant and unmoral or not even worth worrying about, because to them it doesn't benefit them with social life. Men believe that their confident personality and physical appearance for superiority over women is important, But, another cause for negativity towards men health is their sexual appeal attraction that could endanger men health and life.
Many men have pursuit in their journey to obtain a good physical image and a great personality to obtain advantage of being a man. But, the cause of this goal is deathly, because men bring on sexual appeal only to transfer sexual transmitted infections or STI in both the man and the women through sex. Men have focus on working their body and their personality in order to flirt with women in hopes to get them into bed for sex. When men have successfully perform their sexual desires to women, they lack the focus about what potential diseases lurk in their body now. Men often don't use protection, so there don't know what diseases they have. Men who do have transmitted diseases don't even bother getting tested or in fact care about health that much that they would pass the disease on to someone else. Many men who are unaware of the disease would continue to have sex with women without realizing the fact that they are passing a dangerous disease on to them. According to Shari, L. Dworkin in her book, Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness she said, “In that work, we analyzed how newspapers conflated sexual act, risk, and identity, which worked to disseminate erroneous health information about HIV/AIDS risks and constructed different moral orders depending on the specific interaction between social identities and masculinities (e.g. marginalized/subordinated and dominant) that each athlete offered (according to their race, class, sexuality, gender).”(p. 67-68) Dworkin is saying that athletic men dream about, what type man they want to be depending on their race, class, and so forth. Dworkin continues to mention about how athletic men have show different treatment of women depending on race and class in order to get them in bed. Dworkin does mention that some of these athletic men do care about safe sex to prevent from getting HIV or Aids. Safe sex is much more important, than men focusing on body building to attract women for sex. Men desire for a strong physical appearance and on confident personality to show superiority over women, allowed men to work hard to bring sexual appeal towards women. Another affect towards men health is the lack of focus younger men have when they are raised by their parents.
Men started focus about physical appearance and personality in order to star domination at a very young age. At a young age during their teen years they are taught to be tough and do manly things like be on a sport team. Their parent teaches them to be strong and to take big risk in life, thus allowing many young men to focus on family goals and not their own health. Men taking risks is a sign of family goals, because men must take dangerous risk in order to show honor and respect for their family. Also, it means to show how tough and how much heart you have in the family. In the Ian Ban article, “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered” Ban said, “Attention must be paid to the development of interventions that are sensitive to the aspirations, attitudes, and behaviors of young boys and adolescents. The focus on young men must continue into adulthood, with interventions targeting other community settings, such as leisure facilities, sports grounds and working environments.”(p.12). Ian is saying that young men should be a main concern and focus by the parents and by the people. He feels young men are special and would continue to be look upon as unique and dominant gender if something is done. Ian feels if men continue as the superior being over women, then they would lack the concern for their health and eventually die faster. He is worried about all the young men who are suffering at such a young age. If men could to be the superiority being over women by physical appearance and personality, then health problem will continue, thus leading into men facing potential or permanent health problem overtime.
Men desire to be superior over women and hopes for a better personality will allow them to suffer from many dangerous health problems. Men approaching adulthood will feel various changes and health risk that they fail to realize, when they become an adult. During adulthood or approaching adulthood men enlist in the army to serve their country. Men who become part of this great fight become known as a hero and more importantly a man to be worship and loved. But, during the battlefield fighting a battle isn't a walk in the park. It is dangerous and deathly, since many of the male population end up dying and fail to live their full life. In battle many young or older men end up facing dangerous obstacles and would also face very dangerous or dangerous health problems. Some problems including being sick by throwing up or having itches that won't go away. Other health problem for men can also be costly to prove yourself as a real man and a soldier. These health problem could be forever lasting sickness or it could even lead to men losing a body part, which could most likely be an arm or leg. Some of these men who take heavy amount of injures would be rush to the hospital to get checked out. In Susie Kershaw book, Impotent warriors Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity Kershew said, He wanted it to be read and wanted others to make sense of it; indeed, he suggested that he would be willing to undergo an invasive internal exam in order to discover the secrets his body holds.”(p.72). What Susie is saying is that this soldier only worried about his health when it came to him being injured. The quote also says, the soldier wanted the doctors to do test in order to found out what he is made of and if he could stand the battle. Even, after a long battle men still show a positive and confident personality, while at the same time show physical appearance of toughness for superiority over women. But, another issue men face is making bad decisions about their own health, which causes them to die.
Decision making is one of the most important thing in everyday life. Men make good and bad decision in hopes to improve themselves, while at the same decides if that is the best way to go. Men lack of decision is the cause of men lack of awareness, on the health problems they could have affect them, as time moves on. Men who make these bad decision end up with bad habits such as using or dealing drugs, which get them high enough to be violence or even commit suicide. Men who do drugs are mostly adults or teenagers looking for a way to relief stress. But, men who end up doing drugs don't realize the health problems they would suffer if their continue to harass and overuse drugs. Other bad decision including overdrink of alcohol which leads to men physical abusing women and doing things they can;t event remember themselves. People who continue to drink is a sign of bad health as it has the chance to cause cancer. Bruce Campbell in the article, “The success of Men's Educational Group Appointments” Bruce wrote, “Men do not visit physicians as often as women, and tend to under-report their symptoms. Men are more likely to abuse alcohol, use tobacco produces, and often make unhealthy lifestyle decisions, espcially while male bonding.”(p.166). Campbell is saying men do not see doctors very often to know what is wrong with them. He continues to say how men are more stubborn and bad at making the right decision, since many men would end up using drugs substance and alcohol to solve life problems. Men decision to make these chooses are 100% true, because a lot of men who have social life problem use drugs, alcohol, or violence to vent out all they anger, without realizing what physical harm it could do to them. Decision making is a key point to men focus on their personality and their appearance to look strong and cool, but the true cause of superiority by men is their muscular built body or physical appearance to show how much of a real man they are.
The man body is what makes many men seen themselves as the superior force, while they also develop their personality to obtain and sweet talk women, by showing off their well built muscular hardwork body. Every man wants to have a six pack or muscular body to show off toward women. While, many men focus on work out they lack the time to focus any attention on health. Eating too much for men might not be a problem, but lurking women in with their heavy built appearance might be the problem. Men's who focus on they body lack the time to care about their body if they become part of a sport team or if their trying to be built to handle a bully problem. What makes being built a health problem is the challenge of being on a sport team. Like if men are part of a basketball team or football team they will be risking themselves for injury, because other men's would constantly ram and run each other to obtain the ball to score. This violence will allow the body to feel physical cramps or soaring pains in certain areas. Other men's also want the muscular built body out of jealousy, because they see other men get women and be respect by their fellow man. In Natalie Darko article, “Get up and shut up and stop being a fanny””Rugby Union Men and Their Suppression Of Body Anxiety” Darko talked about a student named Pat who said, “My body, my lifting is nothing exceptional on this team, this is part of the reason I train so much; two, three times a day. I want the other boys to look at my body and make compliments. When you don't measure up they will let your know.”(p.335). Darko is explaining how skinner men work out for the power to show off, but doesn't explain how being fit is not for everyone. Pat symbolize a man who follows in someone else footstep in order to achieve his goal, but with the cost of risking his own health in the progress. Men who want to be muscular built are sometimes not capable of handling the training and suffer body harm or event end up damaging a certain body part. Men take the risk of doing something new, but also leads to physical damaging someone health in the progress. Men's determination for physical appearance and personality power over women with muscular builting is the main point to why many men suffer health problems. It is, because they is a health problem where the men body can't withstand the training and therefore, risk the chance of not fully recovering from such an injury.
Men have focus their desire for gender domination though the power of showing off the strong and hardwork of their physical fit appearance and their outgoing personality, while at the same time risk their health and also risk their body to look in a way they really aren't meant to look, because they have been persuade to look that way for someone else to notice and compliment them. Men have been the center of many health problems for many years. In the 2009, Journal of Men’s Health, men have set their goals to body builting in the gym in order for showing off privileges. But, have ultimately put themselves in harm of passing on potential diseases. Men have been the one working hard to have a good physical appearance and good personality to get with women, without seeing the first important thing men should focus on. The health of men should be all men main purpose, before they work up to having a built body and before having a good personality. Health is the most important, because it symbolize the great job that all people did to take care of themselves. Many men believe that worrying about health wasn't a manly thing to worry about, but that's a lie, because without the good will of health once can't exist or function properly to do anything, espically work out to have that six pack that every man wants.
Worked Cited
Holter, Oystein. “Men, Gender and Health 2009-the Norwegian View.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 1. (2009): 101-104. Print.
Dworkin, Shari L. Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Print.
Banks, Ian. “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 2. (2009): 10-13. Print.
Kilshaw, Susie. Impotent warriors Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Print.
Campbell, Bruce. “The Success of Men's Educational Group Appointments.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 3. (2009): 166-168. Print.
Darko, Natalie. “Get up, Shut Up and Stop Being a Fanny”: Rugby Union men and their suppression of body anxiety.” Journal of Men's Health. International Society of Men's Health & Gender. Volume 6, Issue 4. (2009): 331-337. Print.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Research Paper 2 Proposal
Wai Sing Lam
November 12th, 2010
Research Paper # 2 Proposal
I will be providing an argument agreeing to how guys reacts in clubs to get women like in the girl hunt. I will provide statements on why I agree that guys need each other to get women. My preliminary thesis is men uses each other as wing-men and for moral support to order to receive the attention of available single women. I will provide as much information that is provided and research for my support about men sticking up and being there for each other.
Men uses and look after each other. Some men would use phrases like "bros before hoes," and so forth. Some men give each other helpful advice to help pick up women. If guys are in trouble they would help each other out by getting involved. These are some of the basic information about men and loyalty among other men.
To obtain further information about men and their pride towards each other I will research more information. I will research online information from various books and studies people have done. Then I would look through men books in the library. Other places include newspapers and magazines to see how modern day society compares to the old days if possible. This will enable me to find and study up on how different and similar guys are in newspaper or magazines compared to their were in the past. Comparing men from their young self to their older self also will allow to me find out how men develop. How men change form childhood to adulthood through connections with women or girls.
November 12th, 2010
Research Paper # 2 Proposal
I will be providing an argument agreeing to how guys reacts in clubs to get women like in the girl hunt. I will provide statements on why I agree that guys need each other to get women. My preliminary thesis is men uses each other as wing-men and for moral support to order to receive the attention of available single women. I will provide as much information that is provided and research for my support about men sticking up and being there for each other.
Men uses and look after each other. Some men would use phrases like "bros before hoes," and so forth. Some men give each other helpful advice to help pick up women. If guys are in trouble they would help each other out by getting involved. These are some of the basic information about men and loyalty among other men.
To obtain further information about men and their pride towards each other I will research more information. I will research online information from various books and studies people have done. Then I would look through men books in the library. Other places include newspapers and magazines to see how modern day society compares to the old days if possible. This will enable me to find and study up on how different and similar guys are in newspaper or magazines compared to their were in the past. Comparing men from their young self to their older self also will allow to me find out how men develop. How men change form childhood to adulthood through connections with women or girls.
Worst Date
Well actually never been the type of person to really date. Never actualed dated someone before or had been in a relationship before. I've been single for quite some time now. But, If I date before I would have to see what type of person they are and how the date goes. If it goes bad, then I wouldn't give the person another chance. If it good well, Then I might consider giving the person another shot. Overall, it depends on the person and how it goes.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Masculinity and Health Research Paper First Draft
Wai Sing Lam
November 05, 2010
Masculinity and Health Research Paper First Draft
Men and Women are raised by their parents to believe and feel a certain way. For men, their manliness is put to question by the determination of who is more superior in the relationship between men and women. Men hope to be the more superior over women by focusing on their physical appearance and by showing off their strong and confident personality. This has led to men having shorter life span that causes high death rate to happen. Also, allowing men to focus on their sexual appeal to attract women. Men have lack their interest in their well being and have let themselves face dangerous potential health risks men face. Men have not made the right decision, thus causing many men to show no concern for they own health. In the 2009, Journal of Men’s Health Magazine, Men have become focus on their body and physical appearance, in order to please and seduce women and at the same thing be tough enough to fight off bullies. Thus, men have risk putting their health in place, because men are putting themselves in danger of potential injuries. Men focus 100% on body building and 0% on health, because men feels health is nothing too concerning for them. It is, because health isn't an important factor to men that women have lived longer than men. Men desire to show domination over women has caused many men to risk their own health. The more men focus on their body the more likely; they’re going to risk their health through the intent workout they have planned. The more time men focus on their body the more likely he will injure himself. Men having a lot of focus on their physical appearance and risking their life is one of the many negative aspects of being a man
Men relied on their confident personality and physical appearance to impress women and men that they have failed to realize the short life they are starting to develop. Many men have started to work their body in the gym in order to built physical appearance along with their personality, because they wanted to show off how strong and how good they look. While many men focus on their physical appearance they have lack the aspect of taking any advantage towards seeking professional medical health. Men and Women are given equal rights to seek medical help, but very few men have taken the chance to seek help. In Oystein Holter article, Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View, talks about men with disabilities and how they are the only ones who want professional medical help. Men that are muscular built do not seek any support or need for professional medical help. Since, these well-built men have no intention of needing any medical help, since they feel it is not needed and it’s not a manly thing to worry about. According to Oystein Gullag Hotler article, “Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View” Hotler said, “A good starting point would be to investigate the concept of being 'able-bodied', and how this masculine notion historically informed ideas of health and gender in the information of modern society, or, rather, misinformed them, according to current research e.g. handicap.” “It is primarily men who are able bodied, soldier material.” “On basic level, being able-bodied means not going to the doctor.” “If able-bodiedness is part of hegemonic masculinity, the chances are that men will be less proactive in terms of health.”(p. 102). What Hotler is saying is that disabled men look for medical help, while men that are muscular built are questioned by other men about their toughness. Men who are muscular built men see worrying about health something unimportant and unmoral or not even worth worrying about, because to them it doesn't benefit them with social life. Men believe that their confident personality and physical appearance for superiority over women is important, But, another cause for negativity towards men health is their sexual appeal attraction that could endanger men health and life.
Many men have pursuit in their journey to obtain a good physical image and a great personality to obtain advantage of being a man. But, the cause of this goal is deathly, because men bring on sexual appeal only to transfer sexual transmitted infections or STI in both the man and the women through sex. Men have focus on working their body and their personality in order to flirt with women in hopes to get them into bed for sex. When men have sucessfully perform their sexual desires to women, they lack the focus about what potential diseases lurk in their body now. Men often don't use protection, so there don't know what diseases they have. Men who do have transmitted diseases don't even bother getting tested or in fact care about health that much that they would pass the disease on to someone else. Many men who are unaware of the disease would continue to have sex with women without realizing the fact that they are passing a dangerous disease on to them. According to Shari, L. Dworkin in her book, Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness she said, “In that work, we analyzed how newspapers conflated sexual act, risk, and identity, which worked to disseminate erroneous health information about HIV/AIDS risks and constructed different moral orders depending on the specific interaction between social identities and masculinities (e.g. marginalized/subordinated and dominant) that each athlete offered (according to their race, class, sexuality, gender).”(p. 67-68) Dworkin is saying that athletic men dream about, what type man they want to be depending on their race, class, and so forth. Dworkin continues to mention about how athletic men have show different treatment of women depending on race and class in order to get them in bed. Dworkin does mention that some of these athletic men do care about safe sex to prevent from getting Hiv or Aids. Safe sex is much more important, than men focusing on body building to attract women for sex. Men desire for a strong physical appearance and on confident personality to show superiority over women, allowed men to work hard to bring sexual appeal towards women. Another affect towards men health is the lack of focus younger men have when they are raised by their parents.
Men started focus about physical appearance and personality in order to star domination at a very young age. At a young age during their teen years they are taught to be tough and do manly things like be on a sport team. Their parent teaches them to be strong and to take big risk in life, thus allowing many young men to focus on family goals and not their own health. Men taking risks is a sign of family goals, because men must take dangerous risk in order to show honor and respect for their family. Also, it means to show how tough and how much heart you have in the family. In the Ian Ban article, “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered” Ban said, “Attention must be paid to the development of interventions that are sensitive to the aspirations, attitudes, and behaviors of young boys and adolescents. The focus on young men must continue into adulthood, with interventions targeting other community settings, such as leisure facilities, sports grounds and working environments.”(p.12). Ian is saying that young men should be a main concern and focus by the parents and by the people. He feels young men are special and would continue to be look upon as unique and dominant gender if something is done. Ian feels if men continue as the superior being over women, then they would lack the concern for their health and eventually die faster. He is worried about all the young men who are suffering at such a young age. If men could to be the superiority being over women by physical appearance and personality, then health problem will continue, thus leading into men facing potential or permanent health problem overtime.
Men approaching adulthood will feel various changes and health risk that they fail to realize, when they become an adult. During adulthood or approaching adulthood men enlist in the army to serve their country. Men who become part of this great fight become known as a hero and more importantly a man to be worship and loved. But, during the battlefield fighting a battle isnt a walk in the park. It is dangerous and deathly, since many of the male population end up dying and fail to live their full life. In battle many young or older men end up facing dangerous obstacles and would also face very dangerous or dangerous health problems. Some problems including being sick by throwing up or having itches that won't go away. Other health problem for men can also be costly to prove yourself as a real man and a soldier. These health problem could be forever lasting sickness or it could even lead to men losing a body part, which could most likely be an arm or leg. Some of these men who take heavy amount of injures would be rush to the hositpal to get checked out. In Susie Kershaw book, Impotent warriors Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity Susie said, He wanted it to be read and wanted others to make sense of it; indeed, he suggested that he would be willing to undergo an invasive internal exam in order to discover the secrets his body holds.”(p.72). What Susie is saying is that this soldier only worried about his health when it came to him being injured. The quote also says, the soldier wanted the doctors to do test in order to found out what he is made of and if he could stand the battle. Even, after a long battle men still show a postive and confident personality and show physical appearance of toughness for domination, but even hero's makes bad decisions about their own health, which causes them to die.
Decision making is one of the most important thing in everyday life. For many men decision making is important since men manage to do both good and bad choices. Men lack of decision is the cause of their lack of awarness on what health problems they could have affect them, as time moves on. Men who make these bad decision end up with bad habits such as using or dealing drugs, which get them high enough to be violence or even commit suicude. Men who do drugs are mostly adults or teengers looking for a way to relief stress. But, men who end up doing drugs don't realize the health problems they would suffer if their continue to harass and overuse drugs. Other bad decision including overdrink of alcohol which leads to men physical abusing women and doing things they can;t event remember themselves. People who continue to drink is a sign of bad health as it has the chance to cause cancer. Bruce Campbell in the article, “The success of Men's Educational Group Appointments” Bruce wrote, “Men do not visit physicians as often as women, and tend to under-report their symptoms. Men are more likely to abuse alcohol, use tobacco produces, and often make unhealthy lifestyle decisions, espcially while male bonding.”(p.166). Bruce is saying men do not see doctors very often to know what is wrong with them. He continues to say how men are more stubborn and bad at making the right decision, since many men would end up using drugs substance and alcohol to solve life problems. Men decision to make these chooses are 100% true, because a lot of men who have social life problem use drugs, alcohol, or violence to vent out all they anger, without realizing what physical harm it could do to them. Decision making is a key point to men focus on they personality and they appearance to look strong and cool, but the true cause of domination by men is their muscular built body or physical appearance to show how much of a real man they are.
The men body is what makes many men seen themselves as the domination force, while they also develop their personality to obtain and sweet talk women, by showing off they well built muscular hardwork body. Every man wants to have a six pack or muscular body to show off toward women. While, many men focus on work out they lack the time to focus any attention on health. Eating too much for men might not be a problem, but lurking women in with their heavy built appearance might be the problem. Men's who focus on they body lack the time to care about their body if they become part of a sport team or if their trying to be built to handle a bully problem. What makes being built a health problem is the challegne of being on a sport team. Like if men are part of a basketball team or football team they will be risking themselves for injury, because other men's would constantly ram and run each other to obtain the ball to score. This violence will allow the body to feel physical cramps or soaring pains in certain areas. Other men's also want the muscular built body out of jealousy, because they see other men get women and be respect by their fellow man. In Natalie Darko article, “Get up and shut up and stop being a fanny””Rugby Union Men and Their Supression Of Body Anxiety” Natalie talked about a student named Pat who said, “My body, my lifting is nothing exceptional on this team, this is part of the reason I train so much; two, three times a day. I want the other boys to look at my body and make compliments. When you don't mesure up they will ;et your know.”(p.335). Natalie is giving a student point of view about how muscular built body is important to non-muscular built men. This is demostrates how men follow the path other men want to be noticed by their peers. Pat symbolize a man who follows in someone elses footstep in order to achieve his goal, but with the cost of risking his own health in the progess. Men who want to be musuclar built are sometimes not capable of handling the training and suffer body harm or event end up damaging a certain body part. Men take the risk of doing something new, but also leads to physical damaging someone health in the progess. Men's determination for physical appearance and personality domination with muscular builting is the main point to why many men suffer health problems, because this is a health problem that can be seen by other problem and can risk the chance of not fully recovering from it.
Men have focus their desire for gender domination though the power of showing off the strong and hardwork of their physical fit appearance and their outgoing personality, while at the same time risk their health and also risk their body to look in a way they really arent meant to look, because they have been persuade to look that way for someone else to notice and compliment them. Men have been the center of many health problems for many years. Men have been the one working hard to have a good physical appearance and good personality to get with women, without seeing the first important thing men should focus on. The health of men should be all men main purpose, before they work up to having a built body and before having a good personality. Health is the most important, because it symbolize the great job that all people did to take care of themselves. Many men believe that worrying about health wasn't a manly thing to worry about, but that's a lie, because without the good will of health once can't exist or function properly to do anything, espically work out to have that six pack that every man wants.
Worked Cited
Holter, Oystein. “Men, Gender and Health 2009-the Norwegian View.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 1. (2009): 101-104. Print.
Dworkin, Shari L. Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness. New York : New York University Press, 2009. Print.
Banks, Ian. “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 2. (2009): 10- 13. Print.
Kilshaw, Susie. Impotent warriors Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Print.
Campbell, Bruce. “The Success of Men's Educational Group Appointments.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 3. (2009): 166-168. Print.
Darko, Natalie. “Get up, Shut Up and Stop Being a Fanny”: Rugby Union men and their suppression of body anxiety.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 4. (2009): 331-337. Print.
November 05, 2010
Masculinity and Health Research Paper First Draft
Men and Women are raised by their parents to believe and feel a certain way. For men, their manliness is put to question by the determination of who is more superior in the relationship between men and women. Men hope to be the more superior over women by focusing on their physical appearance and by showing off their strong and confident personality. This has led to men having shorter life span that causes high death rate to happen. Also, allowing men to focus on their sexual appeal to attract women. Men have lack their interest in their well being and have let themselves face dangerous potential health risks men face. Men have not made the right decision, thus causing many men to show no concern for they own health. In the 2009, Journal of Men’s Health Magazine, Men have become focus on their body and physical appearance, in order to please and seduce women and at the same thing be tough enough to fight off bullies. Thus, men have risk putting their health in place, because men are putting themselves in danger of potential injuries. Men focus 100% on body building and 0% on health, because men feels health is nothing too concerning for them. It is, because health isn't an important factor to men that women have lived longer than men. Men desire to show domination over women has caused many men to risk their own health. The more men focus on their body the more likely; they’re going to risk their health through the intent workout they have planned. The more time men focus on their body the more likely he will injure himself. Men having a lot of focus on their physical appearance and risking their life is one of the many negative aspects of being a man
Men relied on their confident personality and physical appearance to impress women and men that they have failed to realize the short life they are starting to develop. Many men have started to work their body in the gym in order to built physical appearance along with their personality, because they wanted to show off how strong and how good they look. While many men focus on their physical appearance they have lack the aspect of taking any advantage towards seeking professional medical health. Men and Women are given equal rights to seek medical help, but very few men have taken the chance to seek help. In Oystein Holter article, Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View, talks about men with disabilities and how they are the only ones who want professional medical help. Men that are muscular built do not seek any support or need for professional medical help. Since, these well-built men have no intention of needing any medical help, since they feel it is not needed and it’s not a manly thing to worry about. According to Oystein Gullag Hotler article, “Men, Gender and Health 2009- The Norwegian View” Hotler said, “A good starting point would be to investigate the concept of being 'able-bodied', and how this masculine notion historically informed ideas of health and gender in the information of modern society, or, rather, misinformed them, according to current research e.g. handicap.” “It is primarily men who are able bodied, soldier material.” “On basic level, being able-bodied means not going to the doctor.” “If able-bodiedness is part of hegemonic masculinity, the chances are that men will be less proactive in terms of health.”(p. 102). What Hotler is saying is that disabled men look for medical help, while men that are muscular built are questioned by other men about their toughness. Men who are muscular built men see worrying about health something unimportant and unmoral or not even worth worrying about, because to them it doesn't benefit them with social life. Men believe that their confident personality and physical appearance for superiority over women is important, But, another cause for negativity towards men health is their sexual appeal attraction that could endanger men health and life.
Many men have pursuit in their journey to obtain a good physical image and a great personality to obtain advantage of being a man. But, the cause of this goal is deathly, because men bring on sexual appeal only to transfer sexual transmitted infections or STI in both the man and the women through sex. Men have focus on working their body and their personality in order to flirt with women in hopes to get them into bed for sex. When men have sucessfully perform their sexual desires to women, they lack the focus about what potential diseases lurk in their body now. Men often don't use protection, so there don't know what diseases they have. Men who do have transmitted diseases don't even bother getting tested or in fact care about health that much that they would pass the disease on to someone else. Many men who are unaware of the disease would continue to have sex with women without realizing the fact that they are passing a dangerous disease on to them. According to Shari, L. Dworkin in her book, Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness she said, “In that work, we analyzed how newspapers conflated sexual act, risk, and identity, which worked to disseminate erroneous health information about HIV/AIDS risks and constructed different moral orders depending on the specific interaction between social identities and masculinities (e.g. marginalized/subordinated and dominant) that each athlete offered (according to their race, class, sexuality, gender).”(p. 67-68) Dworkin is saying that athletic men dream about, what type man they want to be depending on their race, class, and so forth. Dworkin continues to mention about how athletic men have show different treatment of women depending on race and class in order to get them in bed. Dworkin does mention that some of these athletic men do care about safe sex to prevent from getting Hiv or Aids. Safe sex is much more important, than men focusing on body building to attract women for sex. Men desire for a strong physical appearance and on confident personality to show superiority over women, allowed men to work hard to bring sexual appeal towards women. Another affect towards men health is the lack of focus younger men have when they are raised by their parents.
Men started focus about physical appearance and personality in order to star domination at a very young age. At a young age during their teen years they are taught to be tough and do manly things like be on a sport team. Their parent teaches them to be strong and to take big risk in life, thus allowing many young men to focus on family goals and not their own health. Men taking risks is a sign of family goals, because men must take dangerous risk in order to show honor and respect for their family. Also, it means to show how tough and how much heart you have in the family. In the Ian Ban article, “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered” Ban said, “Attention must be paid to the development of interventions that are sensitive to the aspirations, attitudes, and behaviors of young boys and adolescents. The focus on young men must continue into adulthood, with interventions targeting other community settings, such as leisure facilities, sports grounds and working environments.”(p.12). Ian is saying that young men should be a main concern and focus by the parents and by the people. He feels young men are special and would continue to be look upon as unique and dominant gender if something is done. Ian feels if men continue as the superior being over women, then they would lack the concern for their health and eventually die faster. He is worried about all the young men who are suffering at such a young age. If men could to be the superiority being over women by physical appearance and personality, then health problem will continue, thus leading into men facing potential or permanent health problem overtime.
Men approaching adulthood will feel various changes and health risk that they fail to realize, when they become an adult. During adulthood or approaching adulthood men enlist in the army to serve their country. Men who become part of this great fight become known as a hero and more importantly a man to be worship and loved. But, during the battlefield fighting a battle isnt a walk in the park. It is dangerous and deathly, since many of the male population end up dying and fail to live their full life. In battle many young or older men end up facing dangerous obstacles and would also face very dangerous or dangerous health problems. Some problems including being sick by throwing up or having itches that won't go away. Other health problem for men can also be costly to prove yourself as a real man and a soldier. These health problem could be forever lasting sickness or it could even lead to men losing a body part, which could most likely be an arm or leg. Some of these men who take heavy amount of injures would be rush to the hositpal to get checked out. In Susie Kershaw book, Impotent warriors Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity Susie said, He wanted it to be read and wanted others to make sense of it; indeed, he suggested that he would be willing to undergo an invasive internal exam in order to discover the secrets his body holds.”(p.72). What Susie is saying is that this soldier only worried about his health when it came to him being injured. The quote also says, the soldier wanted the doctors to do test in order to found out what he is made of and if he could stand the battle. Even, after a long battle men still show a postive and confident personality and show physical appearance of toughness for domination, but even hero's makes bad decisions about their own health, which causes them to die.
Decision making is one of the most important thing in everyday life. For many men decision making is important since men manage to do both good and bad choices. Men lack of decision is the cause of their lack of awarness on what health problems they could have affect them, as time moves on. Men who make these bad decision end up with bad habits such as using or dealing drugs, which get them high enough to be violence or even commit suicude. Men who do drugs are mostly adults or teengers looking for a way to relief stress. But, men who end up doing drugs don't realize the health problems they would suffer if their continue to harass and overuse drugs. Other bad decision including overdrink of alcohol which leads to men physical abusing women and doing things they can;t event remember themselves. People who continue to drink is a sign of bad health as it has the chance to cause cancer. Bruce Campbell in the article, “The success of Men's Educational Group Appointments” Bruce wrote, “Men do not visit physicians as often as women, and tend to under-report their symptoms. Men are more likely to abuse alcohol, use tobacco produces, and often make unhealthy lifestyle decisions, espcially while male bonding.”(p.166). Bruce is saying men do not see doctors very often to know what is wrong with them. He continues to say how men are more stubborn and bad at making the right decision, since many men would end up using drugs substance and alcohol to solve life problems. Men decision to make these chooses are 100% true, because a lot of men who have social life problem use drugs, alcohol, or violence to vent out all they anger, without realizing what physical harm it could do to them. Decision making is a key point to men focus on they personality and they appearance to look strong and cool, but the true cause of domination by men is their muscular built body or physical appearance to show how much of a real man they are.
The men body is what makes many men seen themselves as the domination force, while they also develop their personality to obtain and sweet talk women, by showing off they well built muscular hardwork body. Every man wants to have a six pack or muscular body to show off toward women. While, many men focus on work out they lack the time to focus any attention on health. Eating too much for men might not be a problem, but lurking women in with their heavy built appearance might be the problem. Men's who focus on they body lack the time to care about their body if they become part of a sport team or if their trying to be built to handle a bully problem. What makes being built a health problem is the challegne of being on a sport team. Like if men are part of a basketball team or football team they will be risking themselves for injury, because other men's would constantly ram and run each other to obtain the ball to score. This violence will allow the body to feel physical cramps or soaring pains in certain areas. Other men's also want the muscular built body out of jealousy, because they see other men get women and be respect by their fellow man. In Natalie Darko article, “Get up and shut up and stop being a fanny””Rugby Union Men and Their Supression Of Body Anxiety” Natalie talked about a student named Pat who said, “My body, my lifting is nothing exceptional on this team, this is part of the reason I train so much; two, three times a day. I want the other boys to look at my body and make compliments. When you don't mesure up they will ;et your know.”(p.335). Natalie is giving a student point of view about how muscular built body is important to non-muscular built men. This is demostrates how men follow the path other men want to be noticed by their peers. Pat symbolize a man who follows in someone elses footstep in order to achieve his goal, but with the cost of risking his own health in the progess. Men who want to be musuclar built are sometimes not capable of handling the training and suffer body harm or event end up damaging a certain body part. Men take the risk of doing something new, but also leads to physical damaging someone health in the progess. Men's determination for physical appearance and personality domination with muscular builting is the main point to why many men suffer health problems, because this is a health problem that can be seen by other problem and can risk the chance of not fully recovering from it.
Men have focus their desire for gender domination though the power of showing off the strong and hardwork of their physical fit appearance and their outgoing personality, while at the same time risk their health and also risk their body to look in a way they really arent meant to look, because they have been persuade to look that way for someone else to notice and compliment them. Men have been the center of many health problems for many years. Men have been the one working hard to have a good physical appearance and good personality to get with women, without seeing the first important thing men should focus on. The health of men should be all men main purpose, before they work up to having a built body and before having a good personality. Health is the most important, because it symbolize the great job that all people did to take care of themselves. Many men believe that worrying about health wasn't a manly thing to worry about, but that's a lie, because without the good will of health once can't exist or function properly to do anything, espically work out to have that six pack that every man wants.
Worked Cited
Holter, Oystein. “Men, Gender and Health 2009-the Norwegian View.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 1. (2009): 101-104. Print.
Dworkin, Shari L. Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness. New York : New York University Press, 2009. Print.
Banks, Ian. “Elam: Lost City Rediscovered.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 2. (2009): 10- 13. Print.
Kilshaw, Susie. Impotent warriors Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Print.
Campbell, Bruce. “The Success of Men's Educational Group Appointments.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 3. (2009): 166-168. Print.
Darko, Natalie. “Get up, Shut Up and Stop Being a Fanny”: Rugby Union men and their suppression of body anxiety.” Journal of Men's Health. Volume 6, Issue 4. (2009): 331-337. Print.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Wedding Crashers Blog Post #8
Wai Sing Lam
November 5th,2010
Wedding Crashers Reflection
The two main character in this movie is Vince Vaughn playing as Jeremy Ryan and Owen Wilson playing as John Ryan. They are brothers in the movie who seek to obtain as many women as they can. Both men portray the stereotype that men are all tough and strong. This comes into play when both Jeremy and John attend different people wedding in order to find the most attractive and prettiest women at the wedding. They would flirt with them and ask them if they would like to dance. After, obtaining their attention they would tell them false information about what they do and who they are. This was their intention to get women into bed as both Jeremy and John seek out women as a prey for sexual activity in bed. What other things Jeremy and John would do is talk with the women family members and give them false information, so they could get the chance to built trust. So that they could be introduce to the women by their family member. Another method, both character's used was by showing false talent like physic abilities or balloon making in order to get women attention. If things didn't go too well as planned, Jeremy and John would work harder to stay on the women and their family good side in hopes to prevent them from getting into trouble or even caught about their real intention. There true goal is to sleep with the women and leave before things get too serious.
In the movie, Jeremy Ryan and Johnny Ryan are brothers that have a strong male to male connections. Where at some points their are some male to female connection as well. Both Jeremy and John have a strong bond that they do things together, where there pick up as many women's at weddings as they can. Both men look out for each other, while at the same time give each other great helpful advice on how to score with a women and what has to be done to get women into bed. In the movie, both men would argue at certain point, because they couldn't get out of a situation where two women wouldn't let them go. Both Jeremy and John have rules to follow by when it comes to getting with a girl. Rules that include flirting, telling them things that make them look tough, and never chicken out when you hit on a women. Men and female connection also, comes in the movie when John falls for this woman at a wedding and starts sharing and give false information about what he does. In hopes that the women would love him back as much as he loves her.
In the movie,"Wedding Crasher" and the article "The Girl Hunt," are both very interesting in what men do to obtain women. Both the reading and the movie share the common goal of finding the hot women with a hot body. Both the movie and the reading start their search in a crowded place whether it be a bar or a wedding. In the movie and in the reading, men search for women that has a positive and great personality. After finding a women with that great personality the reading and the movie looks for a weakness in women's in hopes of taking advantage of her in bed for sexual activity.
The movie does provide a clear and strong message toward men. The message the director is sending is to let men know that its never a good idea to lie to a women in hopes of getting as much sex as possible. The director wants men to be honest with them and to be themselves, so that they could find that special someone who would accept and love them in a special way that no one else can give you. Regardless of how people sees it as an unmanly like thing to do, don't listen to them. Being a man doesn't mean getting as many women as you can get your hands on. Even though, you are seen as a player or pimp for getting a lot of women, it isn't the right thing to do. Obtaining as much women doesn't make men a man. Being honest with them and yourself and showing them respect and how special they are is what makes men a man. Being a man is when men take action and be the one capable of finding a special women that would love you for you and not because of something your not while it be a lie or something that hides who you really are. True love is special love between two person that benefits both individuals. Men desire to have sexual intercourse with many women doesn't give men benefits, it only leads into trouble.
Work Cited
Wedding Crashers, Dir. David Dobkin. Perf.
Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rachel Mcadams. New Line Cinema, 2005. Film.
November 5th,2010
Wedding Crashers Reflection
The two main character in this movie is Vince Vaughn playing as Jeremy Ryan and Owen Wilson playing as John Ryan. They are brothers in the movie who seek to obtain as many women as they can. Both men portray the stereotype that men are all tough and strong. This comes into play when both Jeremy and John attend different people wedding in order to find the most attractive and prettiest women at the wedding. They would flirt with them and ask them if they would like to dance. After, obtaining their attention they would tell them false information about what they do and who they are. This was their intention to get women into bed as both Jeremy and John seek out women as a prey for sexual activity in bed. What other things Jeremy and John would do is talk with the women family members and give them false information, so they could get the chance to built trust. So that they could be introduce to the women by their family member. Another method, both character's used was by showing false talent like physic abilities or balloon making in order to get women attention. If things didn't go too well as planned, Jeremy and John would work harder to stay on the women and their family good side in hopes to prevent them from getting into trouble or even caught about their real intention. There true goal is to sleep with the women and leave before things get too serious.
In the movie, Jeremy Ryan and Johnny Ryan are brothers that have a strong male to male connections. Where at some points their are some male to female connection as well. Both Jeremy and John have a strong bond that they do things together, where there pick up as many women's at weddings as they can. Both men look out for each other, while at the same time give each other great helpful advice on how to score with a women and what has to be done to get women into bed. In the movie, both men would argue at certain point, because they couldn't get out of a situation where two women wouldn't let them go. Both Jeremy and John have rules to follow by when it comes to getting with a girl. Rules that include flirting, telling them things that make them look tough, and never chicken out when you hit on a women. Men and female connection also, comes in the movie when John falls for this woman at a wedding and starts sharing and give false information about what he does. In hopes that the women would love him back as much as he loves her.
In the movie,"Wedding Crasher" and the article "The Girl Hunt," are both very interesting in what men do to obtain women. Both the reading and the movie share the common goal of finding the hot women with a hot body. Both the movie and the reading start their search in a crowded place whether it be a bar or a wedding. In the movie and in the reading, men search for women that has a positive and great personality. After finding a women with that great personality the reading and the movie looks for a weakness in women's in hopes of taking advantage of her in bed for sexual activity.
The movie does provide a clear and strong message toward men. The message the director is sending is to let men know that its never a good idea to lie to a women in hopes of getting as much sex as possible. The director wants men to be honest with them and to be themselves, so that they could find that special someone who would accept and love them in a special way that no one else can give you. Regardless of how people sees it as an unmanly like thing to do, don't listen to them. Being a man doesn't mean getting as many women as you can get your hands on. Even though, you are seen as a player or pimp for getting a lot of women, it isn't the right thing to do. Obtaining as much women doesn't make men a man. Being honest with them and yourself and showing them respect and how special they are is what makes men a man. Being a man is when men take action and be the one capable of finding a special women that would love you for you and not because of something your not while it be a lie or something that hides who you really are. True love is special love between two person that benefits both individuals. Men desire to have sexual intercourse with many women doesn't give men benefits, it only leads into trouble.
Work Cited
Wedding Crashers, Dir. David Dobkin. Perf.
Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rachel Mcadams. New Line Cinema, 2005. Film.
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