Boys Don't Cry

I have come to the conclusion that I should read the whole book of Full Frontal Feminism, because the chapters we have read out of this book so far have all been interesting in their own way. This is the first chapter we have read that deals with males and masculinity. One of the sections in this chapter that caught my attention was the one that is titled Men Should Act Like Men. In this section it talks about a commercial for Milwaukee's Best beer, showing three guys who are digging a ditch when a bee comes by, and one of the men tries to wave the bee away while screaming "like a girl". His friends look at him in a strange way, and then a huge can of Milwaukee's Best falls from the sky crushing the screaming guy. During this, a voice says "Men should act like men." So this commerical tells men that they shouldn't act like girls, and also that they need to act like men, or bad things will happen to them. After reading this, it reminded me of another commercial that I saw, that happened to have the same concept but for a different product. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjuXbYW6KmE < This commercial is for snickers and was shown during the Superbowl of 2007. Both of the men start eating the snickers, and then they kiss... leading to them to have to "act like a man" which meant pain, or pulling their chest hairs out. This commercial seems to address gay men, more than being like women, saying its wrong for men to kiss. This is anti-gay, and shows what real men should or shouldn't do. Another section that interested me was Feminist Phobia. The author describes how she taught an Introduction to Feminisms course where this one guy wasn't a fan of the class... at all. He did everything he could to make her life miserable and prove her wrong in everything she said. And soon she figured out that the guy like many other men was in fear of feminism. So they acted out and against everything because they didn't know what else to do, or how else to express themselves. And then on the other hand there are many men who also want to support feminists called pro-feminists, so its funny how widely ranged men can be on the feminism subject.