Re: Bad Boys Last Good Males.......More like Women are the only ones Capable of Creating Good Males!

Dear Simple Scholar,

You must remember that our societal age is ‘post-patriarchal, where women are now capable of success where once men held sole proprietorship. Therefore, even though these thugs and gangsters are actually capable of living the lifestyle boasted through their conversations, the definition of masculinity has changed, moving further away from having to constantly showcase a ‘masculine’ persona’ that is aligned only with ‘sex, violence, drugs, or weapons’. Thus, we can either glamorize a fast-fading model, or catch up to the new model which is centered around the woman because the new rite-of-passage is achieved when the new post-patriarchal woman no longer thinks of the man is pathetic. That, Simple Scholar, is the new masculinity--where all male performance is concerning or centered around Women.

As we see through Nick Hornby’s Rob, his success only occurs with complete submission to Laura--the new Sapient Head.

However, you may be right to some degree, for Gang Culture does in a sense, provide “a space for active masculinity, a site in which to play warrior”. However, like the quotation states, this is merely ‘play’-time--an escapism from the impending post-patriarchal world, where man is a constant target for emasculation, more often than not, at the hands of the New Woman.

-Chavette.