Masculinity In Kimmel's Marketplace Manhood

Masculinity was not always the competitive situation as we know it today. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there are two types of men co-existed. They are Heroic Artisans describes as the working class included farmers and craftsmen, and Genteel Patriarchs described as refined included land owners. The heroic Artisans and Genteel Patriarchs could live in society together because their gender roles complimented each other. Kimmel believes that these gender roles became overpowered by Capitalists, what he calls “Marketplace Manhood”. This theory is the belief that capitalism drives gender identity with wealth, power, status and the ability to conquer all that he comes across “proves” a man’s worth and therefore his masculinity.

Men are always in a competition with each other either at sports are who has the better job, house, car, wife, etc. This is easily seen now days form movies to television shows, even personal a lot of the men we know in our lives fit into the mold of what he is saying. They become in fear of not being up to a level of a man and struggle to out man others. What is important for a man to be a man is left up to what each considers to be that some are money and nice things others it is the way a man holds himself. He goes on to write that “violence is often the single most evident marker of manhood.” This goes with the competition of men. In history all the wars and battle where all started by men, not a single women from what I recall started a war. Even today in the news all political and world events are all by men. But even the media plays apart in the men of everyday life all of the movies and show’s that are geared to men are mostly violent and action packed. If one is to look at the hate crimes that take place I can’t remember any that is done by a woman. So his statement in my opinion really hits and makes a very simple but true statement about men and their