venn diagram

Marable

1.     
The Black man was seen as a beast of burden who works to create a comfortable environment for her and her children. Just another step up from animals

2.      The Black man was oppressed in a way to embrace slavery or the oppressing openly and it was as such that Black soldiers in war gave their lives to protect their white masters.

3.      From his suffering silence form the pain cause by the white masters that is left unsaid, the Blackman fails to show his inner true love and respect for his mother, sister, grandmother and wife. He also fails to show his inner truth self and doesn’t talk about it since already branded.

4.      While white masters favored the Black women because of they performed sexual services to them, the Black man didn’t get any reward for being “manly”, courageous or assertive but for being accommodating

5.      The Black man has been undermined from slavery till to date which has resulted in the socioeconomic instability of the Black community in America. Black men have lost confidence and self-esteem to which they take out on their women most times.

Theroux

1.     
Theroux finds it insulting to be told to be a man because it is literally saying be stupid, unfeeling, obedient and not thinking.

2.      He goes on to disagree with how youths are being subverted into thinking that ideal masculinity is separate from women. This, he explains that gets these youth spending the rest of their life finding women confusing and annoying.

3.      Men in America show their manhood in old fashion ways like killing wild animals, hunting and using pronouncements for a man.

4.      Men are shy to come forth with any profession that is conventionally perceived as a feminine profession with exemplary from a writer profession.

similarities

1.     
Just like the Black man was seen as a beast of burden or a step above animals as Marable says can also be analogized with the mention of American men showing their manhood in the old fashion ways with example of how Norman Maibel will go to show that he is as much monster like the next man in Theroux’s article.

2.      Theroux feels it is insulting for someone to say “be a man.” Which he explains, means to be stupid, unfeeling, obedient, soldierly and not thinking. This, I find at par with how the Blackman was expected to be manly by being stupid, not thinking and obedient and soldierly by the white master.

3.      Just like how Marable explains that Black men should put away his differences and connect to the Black woman for Black communal good, so does Theroux disagree with how youths are being subverted into believing that ideal masculinity is separate from Awomen?

4.      In the nut shell both Theroux and Marable are expressing the same type of masculinities. The story line may differ but basically has a common factor of both the Black men from Marable and the Male from Theroux having the same offence taken by how their masculinity is being perceived but I believe both Marable and Theroux have enough elements in their narration to deem their characters stereotypical.