Christina Hoff Sommers present her article “The War Against Boys” arguing that boys are facing a crisis that is directly affecting their scores in school‚ their propensity to violence and crime and their lack of motivation to go to college. According to her‚ the ones to blame are the feminist efforts to promote girls and create programs to boost their academic careers. These efforts are doing more than just improve girls’ performance in school; they are harming boys by diverting the attention from them. As
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THIS IS NOT MY PAPER!! A War Against Boys? By Michael Kimmel By now‚ you’ve probably heard there’s a "war against boys" in America. The latest heavily-hyped right-wing fusillade against feminism‚ led by Christina Hoff Sommers’s new book of that title‚ claims that men are now the second sex and that boys--not girls--are the ones who are in serious trouble‚ the "victims" of "misguided" feminist efforts to protect and promote girls’ development. At the same time‚ best-selling books by therapists
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Ariel Ashcraft Alice Eagly Psychology of Gender October 17‚ 2003 War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction One of the oldest debates in psychology is the nature versus nurture debate. Its roots extend far beyond the nineteenth century psychologists such as Freud and Skinner into the beginnings of scientific thought. Even Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato addressed the issue of how personality is formed. Today‚ a relative consensus has been reached that nature and nurture work in tangent
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in life. They were able to do so‚ based on the ranks that other men gave them. This system changed man in many ways and affected them both physically and mentally in this world that made them who they are today. “Masculinity as Homophobia” by Michael S. Kimmel‚ is an article that explains the world of men and their struggles in life proving their manhood to others and their fear of other men who are not manly enough. There are some arguments that the author mentions that talks about how manhood these
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The article “’Bros Before Hos’: The Guy Code” by Michael Kimmel‚ chronicles the negative perception that men have for the “weaker” man through a list of unwritten rules of men. It stated that this “guy code‚” was or is‚ essentially‚ what defined masculinity. Many descriptions of weakness include homophobic words like “faggot” and “gay.” Words that pertain more to women‚ like “pussy” or “mama’s boy‚” are also used as an insult to describe a man’s weakness. This is because of the low status that men
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Drawing from Kimmel and Marinucci we read about three types of gender theories; biological‚ psychoanalytic‚ and social construction. In which I will be comparing and contrasting these three gender theories between Kimmel and Marinucci. Kimmel describes biological theory of its originality of gender in chapter four is mainly how gender is developed within biology. When a baby is born the baby is given a gender and to be known as that sex either female or male. As the baby continues to grow the baby
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Stuck: Michael Chabon’s “Wonder Boys” Where do I even start with this book? It is‚ quite honestly‚ one of the best-written books I have ever read‚ ever. I think it took me such a long time to read because the first few pages or so didn’t really attract me‚ in terms of plot‚ but Chabon’s sentences‚ my goodness. His sentences are flawless. I want to marry his sentences. Or‚ in the words of Tracy Jordan‚ I love his sentences so much‚ I want to take them behind the middle school and get them pregnant
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Harsh working conditions were one of the many hardships children working in the mills faced. They were often mistreated‚ as stated in the 1840 novel Michael Armstrong‚ Factory Boy. Crews of children in the mills are described as dirty and miserable. They would be whipped for not performing tasks properly or fast enough. From this and the rest of their difficult work‚ they appeared hideously older than they really
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Two writers - Garibaldi‚ a high school teacher and Kimmel‚ a professor of sociology noted that consequences of feminism movement are harming boys in school and later in life. Kimmel and Garibaldi present their view on gender problem in their articles “How the school shortchange boys” and “A war against boys”. They both make passionate arguments and prove that boys became disadvantaged in modern feminized classrooms. Kimmel’s arguments about boys’ problems in the American educational system are more
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Comparing and Contrasting the life of two of America’s funniest talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. Dec 13th 2013 It could be said that these two men are the funniest two men on late night television with interesting back grounds‚ and great starts to each of their careers it could be one’s own opinion of whom they preferred. Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon are two of the funniest hosts on late night television today. These two gentlemen have taken the position of some very funny
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