Abou Berete

Journal- Considering the last two readings-After examining these readings explore what it
means to be a man? How does it vary from place to place? What does the position of men in their
specific role in their society about it? Identify ideals in our society of masculinity.
Response
As people communicate, they move along a continuum between high- and low-context.
Depending on the kind of relationship, the context, and the purpose of communication, they may
be more or less explicit and direct. In close relationships, communication shorthand is often
used, which makes communication opaque to outsiders but perfectly clear to the parties. With
strangers, the same people may choose low-context communication.
After these reading, I come across to understand, idealization of women also had
implications for men, who were seen as the opposite of women in a number of ways. Women
were passive, dependent, pure, refined, and delicate; men were active, independent, coarse, and
strong.
These divisions between male and female domains, the Doctrine of the Two Spheres, formed the
basis for the polarization of male and female interests and activities. The Cult of True
Womanhood reached its height in the late Victorian period, toward the end of the
Everything descript in the my reading is relevant in today society, men still struggle for
love more than women.