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of age, race, education, occupation, seniority for America’s inequities. The closer we get to
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and work hours. Now men need to liberate achieving equality of opportunity between the
DIFFERENTIATION Identity themselves from the pressure to prove their sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next
masculinity. Contrary to the fears of some pun- major obstacle to improving the well-being of
Connections to World dits, the ascent of women does not portend the most men and women is the growing socioeco-
You could ask students to brainstorm ways end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. nomic inequality within each sex.
in which our culture might change if men But women’s progress by itself is not a panacea 2012
no longer had “to prove their masculinity”
(par. 14). What might happen to profes- Questions
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sional sports? Would men suddenly be
much more content staying home and rais- 1. Rhetorical Situation / Claims and Evidence / Reasoning and Organization. Stephanie
ing children than working long hours and Coontz begins by addressing a counterargument. What is that counterargument, and how
trying to reach corner offices? How would does she address it? How does it affect the cogency of her argument?
this reality look in different cultures? 2. Claims and Evidence / Reasoning and Organization. How does Coontz define the term
“patriarchal dividend” (par. 3)? To what extent do you agree that there is such a benefit?
3. Claims and Evidence. What evidence does Coontz provide to support her contention that
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CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING “[m]ost men are in fact behaving better than ever” (par. 7)?
4. Claims and Evidence / Reasoning and Organization. What does Coontz mean by her
This final sentence makes a very strong claim that the real problem is men’s “overinvestment in their gender identity” (par. 9)? Is it the
statement. What exactly is Coontz saying? same as “the masculine mystique” (par. 11)? Explain.
You might ask students, with partners, to 5. Rhetorical Situation. Much in our society has changed since 2012, the year this article was
paraphrase the conclusive claim. Is it a call published. Has the trend Coontz discusses continued since then? What has changed? What
to action, or something else? has remained the same?
TRM Suggested Responses The Perils of Being Manly
Suggested responses to the questions for 3
this reading can be found in the Teacher’s Roberto A. Ferdman
Resource Materials. Roberto Ferdman is a journalist who covers economics and other issues for HBO’s Vice
News Tonight. Previously a reporter for Wonkblog at the Washington Post, Ferdman wrote
DIFFERENTIATION the following article for the Washington Post in 2016.
Inquiry few years ago, I found myself in the emer- He pressed down onto various parts of my
Q2. Google has two tools students may A gency room. I had hurt my ankle playing foot, each one more painful than the last. And
find interesting as a way to research terms basketball, and the pain was unbearable. I yet, the numbers I uttered barely nudged,
chal dividend.”
and phrases such as “patriar
and phrases such as “patriarchal dividend.” remember sitting there, waiting for someone moving up from 5 to 5.5, and then from 5.5 to 6.
Google Trends shows interest in something to see me, thinking to myself that it must be I never said anything higher than that.
over time. For instance, “patriarchal divi- broken, or fractured, or something similarly When the X-rays were in, the doctor showed
dend” reached its peak popularity in severe. them to me and told me two things. The first was
searches in 2005. Google Books Ngram “I’m going touch your ankle in a few places,” that I had fractured my ankle. The second was
Viewer shows the frequency of words and the doctor said shortly after I was brought in. that there was no way the pain was less than
phrases in printed books since 1800. For “I want you to describe the pain on a scale from an 8. He joked that if I had sought medical care
example, students can use it to see how 1 to 10.” somewhere else, somewhere less precautionary
often “feminine mystique” has appeared in Roberto A. Ferdman, “The perils of being manly,” The Washington Post, March 28, 2016. Copyright © 2016 The Washington Post. All rights reserved. Used
under license. https://washingtonpost.com/
print materials. One way to measure social
trends would be to have students brain- 292
storm key names and phrases and use
these tools to measure the public’s interest
in them. Ideas to search would be “Rosie
the Riveter” in the Ngram Viewer and
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debut that she has been written about TRM ELL Essential Guide Handout BUILDING CONTEXT
more frequently. Similarly, how often had An ELL Essential Guide for this reading can
people searched the term “toxic masculin- be found in the Teacher’s Resource Materials. Pain scales are used by medical profession-
ity” prior to 2015? You might choose some als to assess patients’ pain levels, as refer-
other very current term related to masculin- TRM Vocabulary Handout enced in paragraph 2. These numbers are
ity for students to search. Vocabulary in Context exercises based on meant to convey how severely pain interferes
challenging words from this reading can be with normal daily activities. For example, a
found in the Teacher’s Resource Materials. pain level of 4 is considered moderate, and
though people would be constantly aware of
pain at this level they would still be able to
function normally. Level 5 pain often affects
daily activities in small ways, and level 7 pain
affects them in most ways. Pain at levels
8–10 harms patients’ abilities to talk, listen,
and move.

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