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2. Claims and Evidence. What does the study published in the Journal of Health Psychology 4
demonstrate, according to Ferdman, about the way self-perceptions of masculinity affect
decisions about health care?
3. Claims and Evidence. What were the findings in the second study, published in the journal chapter 4
Preventive Medicine, about men’s behavior when seeing male versus female doctors? Be
sure to discuss the graph included with Ferdman’s article in your response.
4. Claims and Evidence. What is the definition of “masculinity” that the researchers used?
What is meant by such terms as “masculine ideologies” (par. 17) or “masculine men” (par. 12)? Conversation / Collier Meyerson
5. Claims and Evidence / Reasoning and Organization. Ferdman claims that it’s machismo
that prevents men from visiting a doctor and seeking medical care. Is that so? How much of
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the resistance might be attributed to fear?

4 Do We Need to Redefine Masculinity — or Get Rid of It? TRM ELL Essential Guide Handout
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An ELL Essential Guide for this reading
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Collier Meyerson (b. 1985) is a journalist and Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute whose Materials.
Materials.
work on All In with Chris Hayes earned an Emmy Award in 2015. She wrote the following
article for the Nation in 2018.
TRM Vocabulary Handout
would bet a large sum that my father has seen This side of Poppi doesn’t quite fit our
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I 90 percent of the films nominated for this country’s definition of “masculine” — which we Vocabulary in Context exercises based on
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year’s Academy Awards. And my guess, too, is often assume includes attributes like strong, challenging words from this reading can be
found in the Teacher’s Resource Materials.
that he cried during every single one of them. withdrawn, and violent. found in the T eacher’ s Resour ce Materials.
He’s not embarrassed to cry at movies, or televi- But in other ways, my “sissy” dad is quite
sion shows, or commercials. He’s a sap, pretty “masculine.” He’s got a bad temper, though it’s
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proudly. Or, he’s at least an unconcerned one. cooled with age. I remember visiting his office DIFFERENTIATION
Physically, my dad is strong; he plays lots when I was a kid and seeing holes in the
Collaborative Learning
of tennis. But he’s very skinny. He refers to wall — when I asked, he’d say, sheepishly, that Collaborative Learning
his legs as sticks, and says they are not of the they were the result of his being frustrated after a Y ou might have students with partners
You might have students with partners
have a brief discussion of the word “sap” in
human varietal — that they more resemble phone call or meeting with a client, judge, or have a brief discussion of the wor d “sap” in
paragraph 1. How would they define it?
poultry (he’s right, by the way). My dad is opposing counsel. Also, Poppi doesn’t like it paragraph 1. How would they define it?
What are its connotations? Is it only used
overwhelmingly kindhearted, he’s there for me, when you disagree with him — fair enough, What ar e its connotations? Is it only used
d
e an equivalent wor
for men? (If so, is ther
is super-keen on listening to my problems, and that’s natural; I don’t either. But he’ll interrupt for men? (If so, is there an equivalent word
that is used for women?)
he’s affectionate. Poppi texts me at least three you over and over and over to get his point that is used for women?)
times a day to tell me he loves me and is proud across, drowning out any possibility of your
of me. In fact, just now, as I was in the middle actually finishing your thought. On days and
of writing this paragraph, he sent me a text that nights when he watched football when I was
read, “I love you infinity times infinity and growing up, I’d hear him clear across the apart-
best in all of the galaxies and beyond through ment screaming into the television, “Oh, come
eternity.” And every time I publish a piece of onnnnnnnn, you [expletive expletive expletive]”
writing, he sends out an e-mail announcing in a tone that frightened me. Nowadays, I stay
my new article to his friends, our family, his away from his room when he’s watching his
colleagues, my friends, and also, somehow, football — and I’m pretty sure that’s why my
my colleagues. mom got her own TV in the kitchen.
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Scaffolding
Meyerson characterizes her father as having
opposing sides, using the transition state-
ment at the start of paragraph 4. You could
take this opportunity to talk to students about
complexity, tensions, and juxtapositions. For
what purposes does Meyerson choose to
introduce her father’s contrasting sides?

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