Blog # 4 - Marable's "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes"

It doesn't matter if you're black or white, women need to work together to show society that men and women must be treated equally.  In the 1800's, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment giving Black males the right to vote.  Black and white women still did not have this right.  This happened while both Black and white women decided to get together and fight for the rights that men have.
Marable says that if Black males gained their right to vote before women did "...it symbolized the political advancement of Black male over white middle-class women" (19).  I agree with this statement, but I think in those times where Black men were still known to be less than white people, it didn't look right.  Black men were supposed to be seen as weak people, because of their race.  Women then started to get together and fight to have the same rights as men.  I think it made the white women mad because black men were seen as a threat to them.  I think they got tired of it and this is why they decided to speak up along with the Black women.

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Blog # 3 - "The Male Myth" by Paul Theroux

I agree with Paul Theroux's statement: "The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life." (101)  Reading that quote, I understand that the"ill-fitting coat" is all the expectations that people have over men.  The sports men play, the way men act, and even the job that a man has has to seem right to society.

I do disagree about society having these certain expectations of men because then men won't be able to things freely.  If they did do something differently than other men, they would have to think twice about it because it may not seem manly to other people.  I believe that just like women get to do whatever they want, men can also.

Blog # 2 - Lorber's "Night to His Day"

Society leads to their conclusion if someone is a male or a female by their behavior and looks.  What influences a child to be what they are are their parents, which I believe is number one.  They are the ones who decide how they look like and teaching them what is right and wrong.  Later on, when that child is older, media and society will be other factors that influence not only looks and behavior, but also their thoughts and ideas on certain topics.  Depending on how you act and look people will judge you and if you aren't "normal" you would be an outcast.  I think this is what gender development is made out of.

Blog # 1 - Are Men Born Or Made?

Before I read "How to Build a Man" by Anne Fausto-Sterling, I believed that men were born.  I guess that once you read some one else's point of view you start thinking twice of what you really think.  Now that I have read the passage I think they are made.
Sterling mentions when the baby is the womb and describes the development.  "Maleness requires the presence of special hormones; in their absence, femaleness just happens." says Anne Fausto-Sterling.  When I read that statement, I thought males were made.  Science has to pay more attention to the males than the females when developing.  Not only in science, but in culture.  Parent's show boys that they have to play with cars, not dolls.  They won't be playing hand games like girls do, they'll be playing rough with other boys.
In the end, they aren't born masculine, they must be taught to become masculine.