Who's is the man?

If you consider you self as a man, you need to respond like a man and act like a man. That is the main idea for masculinity. I think that in a both articles the man a similar. In Poul  Theroux "The Male Myth " he dislike to be as a man , because simply you can do certain jobs, like being a writer, it well be considered by society as incompatible with being a man  and this is not masculine. According to Poul Theroux , to be considered  masculine, man need hunt ducks, and carry knife, produce wealth. In the article Manning Marable "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" Black men also dislike to be man, as a slave. They can't do what they want to: be free, or to have family, but only what  they supposed to be told to do by their master. And if they do show masculinity they were castrated.

Works Cited:

Marble, Manny."The Black Male: Search Beyond Stereotypes." Men's Live. 5ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A.Messner Ed. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2001 p 17-23. Print.

Theroux, Paul. "The Male Myth." Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers. 7th ed. Sheena gillespie and Robert Becker Ed. New York: Person Longman, 2008. p 101-105. Print.