Similarities Between Hinojosa And Rodrigue

Rodrigues and Hinojosa both describe how they experienced the stereotype of gender, however, in very different ways. As Rodrigues notes, he “never dated” and was extremely self-conscious. As a male, this prompted him to focus on is education, which ultimately lead to even more criticism, as his father would tease saying that he “would never know what ‘real work’ is.” Through his experience, it can be inferred that masculinity was defined as hard-working and brave men. However, due to Rodriguez’s skin color, he denied the “sense of his maleness.” Likewise, Hinojosa also expresses concern of this stereotype in her excerpt. Hinojosa was thrilled to hear that her fellow Latin friend, Sonia Sotomayor, was “nominated by President Barack Obama to