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How do people determine each other?s gender without observing their physical appearances? Do people distinguish each other?s interests in certain activities? Are males more heavily into sports than females? Can a male adore taking care of plants as much as a female? The answers to these questions may seem obvious to some. But there is no solid line between masculinity and femininity. Some may say that these questions do not have a correct answer and they can be either gender. These people think differently; they think androgynously. According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, ?androgynous? means being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior. In Noel Perrin?s essay, ?The Androgynous Man,? he describes his experiences as a teenage boy observing what exactly makes him a man and how some of his characteristics correlate to those of females. In Perrin?s essay, he flashed back into time when he was 16 years of age. He was on his way to from New York to a camp in Colorado to be an assistant horse wrangler. During his train ride he was skimming through a magazine and came across a little quiz that is supposed to measure level
Most men are hardcore action movie lovers. I am a big action movie lover myself, but what I noticed is that men would become bored when they watch dramatic movies or what my generation calls ?chick-flicks.? Their attention to the movie would be off and on depending on the amount of action the movie had. A friend of mine wanted me to watch a movie at his house one time. It was a two hour movie that was cut down to one hour because he would always fast forward only to the action scenes. I complained to him that I had missed the whole plot to the movie and I wanted to watch the whole movie straight. He then said that, ?Oh, man, there?s too much ?lovey-dovey? in this movie, so I skipped it!? Even though many men want to be as manly as possible, I highly agree that to be a male there is no need to have stereotypical masculine characteristics. The mental differences between a man?s ways and a woman?s ways are nothing but a fine line. Perrin makes a good point about what God?s stand on this topic would be: if God were to take the same quiz, God would come out neither masculine nor would God come out feminine, but in the middle. In modern day society, occupations in men tend to be hands-on and the occupations in women tend to be more mental. The reason for this may be the imitation factor that Perrin mentioned in his essay. ??they are often so unself-consciously at ease in the world that other men seek to imitate them.? In the sports industry, for example, certain sports, such as football and major league baseball, are only played by men. Why? Men usually have a reputation to maintain to prove that they are real masculine. It is difficult for the average American man to accept women in some sports. If a woman were to accomplish something usually only accomplished by men, then
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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