Androgynous Man

The androgynous Man At a draw in Noel Perrins life, he suddenly became conflicted over his masculinity. It was such a breakthrough, that he had to analyze the undivided situation. Although it took some years to finally grasp the concept of it, Perrin is now agreeable and understands the logic behind the typical gender subroutines non from research and new(prenominal) peoples work, but from his accept experience and his own ideas. At an age where you would mainly start to develop from a boy to a man, age sixteen, Noel Perrin found himself on a three-day trip from New York to Steamboat Springs, cobalt to become an assistant horse wrangler.On this trip with him, Perrin brought G genius with the Wind and a handful of magazines that obtained some interesting articles. In a short detail of time, Perrin was let on of reading material so he and so went backwards and read all the boring articles and all the quizzes that you would find in a magazine at the time. One of the quizzes that rightfully caught Perrins eye was How virile/ Feminine Are You? The quiz consisted of inkblots that had four excerpts as choices and you would answer the option that you thought the inkblot most resembled.When Perrin finished this quiz and then found out his results, he was astonished by the conclusion. On a scale from nonpareil to ten of masculinity, Perrin was an abysmal 1. 2. Perrin was so confounded over the results that he then went back and analyzed every option. From this, he came up with two underlying patterns that he found in the inkblot choices. Perrin claims that manlys would stir to the inkblots as man-made objects while, females would relate to the inkblots as natural objects.He then went on to conclude that the test itself was using limited criteria and that masculinity/femininity is more complicated than this test states. Perrin rails that on that point ar a large percentage of males and females who ar androgynous or curb both gender qualities. Furthermore, Perrin then proceeds to classify the assorted gender types specifically for the male. Perrin strongly insists that there are men who are the stud poker or the one hundred percent man. These men are attracted to physical power and dominance.Also, these he-men are so unselfconsciously at solace that other men try to imitate them. The reasoning for the imitation is that generally men hypothecate that they ease up to be the one hundred percent male. These imitators fail to come to the realization that just like women men too come in a wide variety of types. Perrin then goes on to enjoin that these imitators pass their whole life trying to play that role that theyre s cable cared to believe in a weakness in them. Admittedly, Perrin strongly believes that androgynous people are growing by the come.He makes a connection with the womens movement for the breakthrough of androgynes, but Perrin also believes that one mistake women have take upe is that they think that all men should be androgynous this would lead to a very dull world Perrin states. Perrin by and by proceeds to give us his ideal or definition of the androgynous man. He uses his own situations such as feeding his kids, how he knows zilch about cars, buying a book called Home Repairs Any muliebrity Can Do and how some emotional scenes from movies arrive him all choked up.Overall, the definition of the androgynous man is having traits of the opposite sex in a casual way. After examining Perrins article, The Androgynous Man, I find myself broadly agreeing with his definition of the androgynous man and how their numbers are growing. I ply to agree with most of his ideas except for the fact of how he claims its so wrong to be an imitator. When I read about Perrins version of the he-man or the one-hundred percent male, I automatically thought of jam Bond. I think the term now would a mans-man.Whats not manlier than ordering a dry martini, driving a sports car, beingness a monoga mist, or probably the manliest thing of them all, having a gun? What male doesnt want to have at least(prenominal) one of those things? So when Perrin states thatPartly theyre imitators just envious of the he-mans unconscious(p) ease. Mostly theyre terrified of finding that there may be something wrong with them deep down, some weakness at the heart. To avoid discovering that, they spend their lives acting out the role that the he-man naturally lives. Sad. (Perrin, Page 247-248) I completely disagree with hat. Perrin makes it sound like its such a burden to be envious or jealous of those manly qualities. I think its human nature to do that and there is null wrong with acting out that way. No man is vent to say I want to be that guy, instead theyre grammatical construction I want to be LIKE that guy, combining the qualities you have already with the ones that you dont have. I believe if youre not constantly searching to be better in life or have better qualities, whether theyre manlier or not, whats the point of active in life? Its human nature to try to be better in one way or another.For example, if theres an update for your iphone, are you not going to take it? No, because that update is going to make it better. Same rules apply to human life. Another issue I have with another one of Perrins opinions is he also believes that they imitators arent as free as us androgynes (Perrin, Page 247). Perrin doesnt really back up his opinion here, as he also states that his manage is mere speculation, but not casual (Perrin, Page 247). Well, if you cant back this up, dont state it. Im not going to sit here and tell you that Ford is better than Chevrolet and when you ask, why?Im not going to answer, Just because it is. No one would respect or acknowledge my opinion then and I believe the same applies to this matter. When Perrin can come up with proven facts to back up this statement, I will act accordingly. In conclusion, Perrin was right about numerous things su ch as the androgynous men and women growing by the numbers and how its more accepted now a days. Overall, I think its the one-hundred percent man or the one-hundred percent woman that take aim to stay alive to add balance to the gender roles so that we dont lose sight of our roots.Responsibility I think as students, at this time in our lives, we can all agree that at least over the past five years or so, one phrase that keeps being brought up is responsibility. This word has been drilled into our heads since around the age of 16. When you precious a job, were you prudent enough? When you wanted your drivers license, were you responsible enough? When you wanted to go out and party, were you responsible enough? I strongly believe that the more we get older, the more responsibility we take on. Responsibility is a form of trust and accountability.We all reached a point in our life where we all had to start taking accountability for our own actions. Depending on what the action was, w e were either corrected or not. This would be utilise mostly by our parents. For me at least, the form of correction would be punishment. If I went out at night and came seat past curfew I would get grounded. So next time if Im not home on time and know I will be late, I call ahead to confirm it with my parents so Ill get a lesser form of punishment or best case scenario, no punishment at all. This would be an example of responsibility.Today, I have unmeasured acts of responsibility. I pay my own car payment and my own car insurance. I also pay for my cell phone bill. Also, the most all-important(a) responsibility to me is taking care of my own two dogs, Duke and Lola. I think the more we get older the more responsibility we take on and handle. Its part of growing up. You cant ignore it. You have to embrace it. If not, youll see how hard life can truly be. flora Cited Perrin, Noel. The Androgynous Man. 40 Model Essays A Portable Anthology. Ed. Jane E. Aaron. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2005. 246-49. Print.