"If it were not for unnatural or prison-like boy's camps, we would have no Elks" lodges, no pool halls, no boxing matches, no Marines." This opinion by Paul Theroux is a clash with the way I see the development of a man in today's society. Sure, when someone is coached, the coach can turn him of her into a replica of what they have in vision. But instinct is something that can't be changed in the development of a man. .
In my opinion, a man's personality depends on the way he is brought up. If a man grows up around women his whole life and has little contact with boys his age, and men, such as a father figure, then when he gets older he will most likely be more sympathetic. He would probably find it easier to express his feelings also.
I was raised with more females than males in the house. I seem to get along better with women than men. Some people say that men can't listen to women, I have no problem listening. I don't know if that is because of the way I was raised, but I think that it must play some factor.
If a boy grows up around more men than women, it seems that they almost always turn out the way they were raised. I think that the man that Paul Theroux pictures comes from this sort of atmosphere. Paul Theroux pictures men as unfeeling, obedient, soldierly, and doesn't think. I can see how that would be true more often than not under these circumstances. .
Down the street from me while I was growing up, was a boy that was raised by his father. Every weekend they would go hunting, and on Sundays his father would watch NASCAR and get drunk. Today that same boy that grew up in that environment is just like his father. He has a family and every weekend he and his son go hunting and on Sundays he will watch NASCAR and get drunk of cheep beer. To most people, that family would almost seem to be dysfunctional. To Chris (the boy that grew up down the street) he lives a life like everyone else in America.
If you've done the wrong thing, you do whatever it takes to make amends. ... If the action is wrong or doesn't make sense, you don't do it. ... I've spent my entire life around the kind of men Theroux ignores in his essay. ... And there's nothing wrong with either hunting or not hunting. ... Theroux says, "Being a drunkard is another assertion, if misplaced, of manliness." ...
Also, this essay will examine Paul Theroux's view on view on being a male. ... An essay written by Paul Theroux, called The Male Myth, tells of his disgust of this and other stereotypes that are placed upon men. ... Theroux feels that "the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts" . ... They do not realize that there is nothing wrong with being unlike everyone else. ... As Paul Theroux" view "Being a drunkard is another assertion, if misplaced, of manline...
"The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful" (Theroux 430). ... Paul Theroux, the author of Being a Man comments that he never wanted to follow the traditional male gender roll. ... This type of ridicule they receive will do serious damage to a young man, their entire life they may grow up thinking they are different or there is something wrong with the way they think, feel, and act. They may feel as though they did something wrong when, in all actuality, it is the people that have excluded them that have actually done something wrong. ...
In the essay "Being a Man" by Paul Theroux, he states "And this is also why men often object to feminism but are afraid to explain why: of course women have a justified grievance, but most men believe-and with reason-that their lives are just as bad.... They have proven the stereotypes wrong and have shown that they are not just what society wants them to be....
This is very true in the case of Paul Theroux's Millroy the Magician. ... In this respect, he is very similar to Allie Fox of Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast. ... If someone has terrible acne it is because they have been eating all the wrong foods. ...
To Sex or Not to Sex Sex has created an expectation on the role of the female to create sexuality. While women are responsible for creating the desire, men are expected to do nothing more than act on it and in some cases take advantage of it. In the end, even though men are equal participants, women are held more responsible for their sexual activity then men, who are seen as doing nothing more than responding. At the tender young age of 4-years old, children begin to recognize that there is a difference between boys and girls. And although children might not understand the biological dif...
