The men in the 4th episode of “Man Enough” have coincidentally reflected on what Micheal Kimmel wrote in his article “Masculinity” about masculinities and the institutions of gender inequalities and bias. They spoke about their relationship to themselves, with their families as well as to the people around them. The following answers are an analysis to those reflections.

1. On page 3 of Micheal Kimmel’s “Masculinity” he writes the following: “Institutions accomplish the creation of gender difference and the reproduction of gender order through several gender processes” and by this he means that institutions have been at the core of gender inequality, institutions such as schools, places of work, media and more. And how those institutions have been reproducing these inequalities on society. What Kimmel is trying to say is that it’s not people who are creating these inequalities, it’s the old-school system that has been fueling many industries that created and continues to establish these inequalities. He mentions that these inequalities affect everyone on the gender spectrum. In relation to the 4th episode of “Man Enough” all of these men are in the public domain as well as the film/music industry, an industry that is very male dominated. They talk about how they see that they have an upper hand in their line of work and how they see women having to compensate for things they didn’t have to in order to get to where they are.

2. In the conclusion to his article, Kimmel writes the following: “Understanding how we do masculinities… opens up the unimaginable possibilities of social change” and he uses the term masculinities instead of masculinity to demonstrate that there is more than one way to be a man and that being a man is a multi- dimensional thing that is not determined by society but by the person who identifies as a man. This quote relates to the 4th episode of “Man Enough” where all the men were talking about their experiences as men with some being victims to sexual abuse and others being witnesses. They also mention their struggles with coming to terms with their masculinity, saying that they thought they had to follow a protocol in order to call themselves a man and how they wished they’d known sooner that that was not the case. Some of them even go on to how now they since they know better they will try to pass on that knowledge to their sons.