Myths

Myths

First Part of paper

The definition that Goffman offers might have changed a little over time, but it is mostly correct and the pressure is still a reality. The definition of manhood is different by culture (and in one culture over time), race, class, age, and sexuality but the pressure to conform is almost always there. Men feel pressure from family and friends as well as strangers to live and act a certain way in order to be accepted and to not be accepted means to be outcast and often the target of ridicule or even physical forms of ridicule. It is not hard to understand why boys would want to avoid this and so they follow the code. Be a man, be tough, and put your brothers (Bros) before all else. Emotions get blocked off, but rage and violence is oddly acceptable. Violence is too acceptable, because most of the violent crimes committed in America are perpetrated by men.

Psychologist Mary Pipher enlightens the pressures of most of the girls now these days. Instead of getting married to a man, single women are interested going shopping buying all the things they wanted. It seems that women are doing this because they know that men can reject them but the money they have will never reject them. That the money they used to buy everything they want will be back to them and they will not lose the money like a cycle, it will be back to them no matter what unlike man that if they rejected you, they will never be back to you. Mary Pipher illustrates these changes in early adolescent girls. She explain elements of language through these girls' silly decisions. These feelings are mysterious and complicated. It's just a way of life that a lot of girls go ...