Category: Entry 7

Fascinated(Verb)

accoding to the dictionary Marriam Webster, the word fascinated mean”To command the interest of”.

This word is appear in the article”The boys at back”by Christina Hoff Sommers, In the quote”The student are kept so budy and fascinated with what they are doing that they have neither the time nor the desire antics”.

Afte I understand the word fascinated, I will be able to understand this sentence clearly which mean the student is interest in something that they don’t even have the time to do it, and don’t have the emotion to do it.

According to the Merriam-Webster the word mutate is a verb and it means a significant change. It can be found on paragraph 2 on “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest” by Andrew Reiner. “The home video was right on point, illustrating the takeaway for the course: how boys are taught, sometimes with the best intention, to mutate their emotional suffering into anger”. In the video shown during the vaccination the dad tries to drastically change the boy’s emotion by cheering him by saying he is a man. The word is used to show how the boy changed his emotion quickly.

According to the merriam-Webster elixir is a noun and means the essential principle. In the article “ How to help kids disrupt ‘bro culture’” by Ana Homayoun it says, “ Bro culture uses the formidable elixirs of power and status to create a toxic social environment, and tends to be characterized by manipulative charm, entitlement and a so-called ‘rules don’t apply attitude’— as well as an inability to express emotion, show remorse or be vulnerable.” This is significant because it shows that the culture of “bro” has been demoralizing men in our society because they have no idea how to show their emotions anymore and they don’t know what’s right and wrong anymore. The word “bro” has been making men think of how they should act but it’s wrong because it’s rules made by other men. Learning this definition is going to help me further explain some points in my essays.

Agitate is a verb and according to Merriam-Webster the definition is ” to move with an irregular, rapid, or violent action”. This word is used in the article, “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest” by Andrew Reiner when he talk about the gay in the clip and his father went for vacation. His father was motivating him by saying that “Be a man” and got aggressive because his son got agitated. To make him feel better he started motivating him.

The word Etiquette appears in the context “Dr. Kimmel came to my campus, Towson University, in 2011 to discuss the “Bro Code” of collegiate male etiquette.” This word is included in the article “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest” by Andrew Reiner. As indicated by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word “Etiquette” implies that the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life. Now knowing the meaning of the word I realize that the creator was stating they would examine about how guys are seen in the public eye and in their lives.

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, poignancy is identified as a adjective word. It means “painfully affecting the feelings”. In the article “Allowing Teenage Boys to Love Their Friends” it states,”she views her son’s friendships with pride and poignancy: “I love watching how the boys relate to each other on and off the field. But I’m so aware that this will go away. He’s aware of the expectation that eventually, a boy has to choose between a boy friend and a girlfriend.”. The word poignancy was used to explain how she feels sad that the friendship between her son and his friend wont last forever. She knows that change is only a matter of time and cherishes this moment while it lasts.

Accord to dictionary.com the word vulnerability means capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body I find the word in the article of teaching men to be emotionally honest by Andrew Reiner “Some cultural critics link such mounting emotional vulnerability to the erosion of male privilege and all that it entails”  I didn’t know what the word mean but when I look it up. I understand what the word mean. Also the quote is talk about male feelings. 

et•i•quette (noun)

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word etiquette means the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life. This word is found in the article “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest” by Andrew Reiner when it states, “Dr. Kimmel came to my campus, Towson University, in 2011 to discuss the “Bro Code” of collegiate male etiquette.” Now knowing the definition of the word I know that the author was saying they were going to discuss about how males are observed in society and in their lives.

Dens: a secret place where people meet (noun)

This is the meaning of the word dens according to collinsdictionary.com. I saw this word when I was reading the article “Today’s Masculinity is stifling” on October 15th, 2018. It was on paragraph 10 in the sentence “Last year, when the Boys Scouts of America announced that they would begin admitting girls into their dens, young women saw a wall come down around a territory that was theirs to occupy. Girls were never able to be part of the boys scouts before this, and now they get to be part of a group which before, only had boys in it. Now they get to be part of the boys group or dens which is how i understood what the word dens meant by seeing it in this context.