Emasculation

fabric of America was deeply affected as economic hardships forced families to make drastic changes. The traditional role of men as the central stipendiaries was severely challenged, leading to a crisis of identity and masculinity. This feeling of emasculation and hopelessness contributed to the significant rise in mental health issues, encompassing anxiety and depression. The psychological toll was profound, with increasing rates of self-harm and suicide. Historian Susan Ware states that…

Assumptions of Homosexuality in 18th Century Composers Phillip Brett begins his article on issues of sexuality in 18th century music with an observation from 20th century composer Virgil Thompson, who noted that no one in music ever talked about homosexuality. This assertion is quickly contradicted with a quote from Havelock Ellis, who states that “It has been extravagantly said that all musicians are inverts.” Ellis uses the dated psychological term “inverts” to refer to those displaying…

Although real prisoners do not wear dresses, they wanted to produce the effect of humiliation and emasculation, which real prisoners do feel. Real prisoners also do not wear chains on their ankles, but it was used to remind the prisoners of their oppressive environment, and how they could not escape it, even in their dreams. The use of ID numbers and the…

Karl Marx and Fredrich Engel’s The Communist Manifesto (1848) is one of the most historically and politically significant texts of modern history. The manifesto expertly gives context to the rise of the newly emergent economic system of capitalism, as well as exposes many of its current flaws, and even makes predictions about the progression and fall of capitalism. Marx and Engels accurately predicted the economic class struggle and income inequality even 40 years before the gilded age. The…

“bitch”, telling her about how she always treated him poorly and never respected him, furthering her representation as the enemy, as if the main protagonist on the series despises such a character, then why not the audience, too. Skyler’s alleged emasculation of White emphasizes the stereotypical plight of the housewife-- to protect the family by supporting them with all costs, or to protect the family by appealing to their best…

The two authors Ken Kesey and Aldous Huxley each wrote brilliant works of fiction portraying the desires of our nation to enforce its control over the people. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Next by Ken Kesey takes place in Oregon during the fifties. The protagonist Chief Bromden and his fellow acquaintances are all part of a psychiatric ward that face the strict control of Nurse Ratched and attempt to overcome this oppression when a nonchalant Randle McMurphy is brought in and turns the lives of the…

The terms cultural genocide, eliticide, democide and gendercide all have a relationship to genocide. Whenever the process of genocide occurs, these concepts are often part of it. These concepts have proven applicability to the process of genocide (although cultural genocide can also be carried out without the full process of genocide taking place) Cultural genocide: David Nersessina (2005) describes cultural genocide as extending beyond the physical and biological acts to harm a group by…

In the past men were deemed the breadwinners and women stayed at home full-time to tend to the children and the home. Men could feel a sense of emasculation if women are paid equally, but it is also 2016 and women do not just stay home anymore. Nowadays in a two parent household both parents work. If a woman is – now – allowed to do the same job as a man, and vice versa shouldn’t they receive the…

behave, because of the characteristics society induces into them: a lack of display of emotion, and a display of strength at the cost of other people. These men consider displaying “feminine” (traditionally associated with women) traits a form of emasculation, and something the must be avoided at all costs. “We are so caught up in these toxic ideas, that a woman granting her…

If one person’s inaction leads to the death of another, is he guiltier than someone who committed a violent act that results in a person’s death? In August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Citizen Barlow stole a bucket of nails, but did not come forward when another man was accused. The man subsequently committed suicide due to the false accusation and the significance of being labeled a thief. Another character, Caesar Wilts, shoots and kills a man who was suspected of committing a crime. While both…