Sunday, April 10, 2011
Blog post 5 Espiritu
Espiritu raises salient points in his discussion of masculinity. I especially was enthralled on how he doesn't make the argument too black and white (his story about a man, impoverished by his incacereration in a concentration camp, cursing women for his lot is especially keen). By focusing, in distended length,on the emasculation of men he reinforces his point of view that the power of man is powerful enough to rebuke their belittlement. Bear with me. My point is that he (Espiritu) only verifies the fact that guys do not like to leave injustices at that. Why write an article? What's the point? To inform but also to provide a new perspective. I'm a very down to earth observer, so it seem's pretty reasonable to infer that his own masculinity compelled him to defend man. Leave it to a man to defend past wrongs.
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While I'm glad you find Epiritu's approach to "emasculation of men" more effective than that of Theroux (if I correctly recall your blog post on Theroux, you were not too impressed with his personal approach?). But what are the "salient points" Espiritu makes? What do you mean by "power of man is powerful enough to rebuke their belittlement"? Doesn't Epsiritu note several negative outcomes resulting from racial and class stereotypes forced upon Asian American men? *you need to work on developing more focused and specific responses.
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