The theme which was assigned to me was adventurousness. For this theme, I chose Olaf from the movie Frozen as he is known to be a funny and humorous character from the movie. He has a great adventurous side to him throughout the movie. He likes to have fun and is always in a positive move through any adventure that he goes through. At the beginning of the movie, when Elsa runs off into the hills, Anna meets Olaf in the snow. When she first meets him, she becomeS friends with him right away and he insists that he joins her and Kristophe on their journey to find her sister. Although Olaf is very adventurous, he also is a realistic thinking character which does not like to take too many uncalculated risks. This does not stop him, however, from always wanting to travel and join them on their quest.

I chose Olaf to represent adventurousness because he is a character which was placed in the movie to comfort Anna and Kristophe and to take them on an adventure. Without Olaf, the movie would fall flat and there would be no main plot.

Thanos

According to the text Intro to Mens Studies, “men should be strong, sturdy, independent, and in control of themselves, even in the most difficult situations”. (Kilmartin 6) The first guy who comes into my mind following that statement is Thanos. For those who don’t know who Thanos is, he is a malicious man in the Avengers who succeeded to destroy half of the population with the snap of a finger, literally.

Going back to the text, it is also declared that, men should not show any symptoms of weakness and must act stubborn at all times. In the movie The Avengers: Endgame, Thanos physically felt weak after destroying everybody because he almost died. However, instead of taking charge of powerful acts with half the population, he moved far away to a different planet where he can be a nobody and not show that he is incapable of being who he anticipated to be.

It was also stated that, strength is another quality that makes a man, a man. Thanos attempted to show physical strength but fighting superheroes and stealing each infinity stone to destroy people. This being said, he fits the theme because he is the epidemy of strong and stubborn

Bibliography

Farokhmanesh, Megan. Avengers: Infinity War’s big bad Thanos is getting his own origin story. 2018. the verge. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243794/avengers-infinity-wars-thanos-origin-story-marvel. Accessed 5 February 2020

Kilmartin, Christopher. “Defining Mens Studies”. Intro to Mens Studies. Accessed 5 February 2020

Joe Hogan is a male African American nurse who lived in Columbia, Mississippi who stood up for his rights and what he believed in. He already had an associate’s degree, but he wanted to further his education to get his bachelor’s degree. The closest co-ed university was 147 miles away, so he applied to an all-girl’s university, Mississippi University for Women (MUW), that was in his hometown. He was denied admission based on his sex, despite the fact that he was otherwise qualified. Hogan sued the school on the basis of the violation of his 14th amendment rights (the Equal Protection Clause), and in 1982, the courts ruled in favor of him, ending school sex discrimination in publicly funded nursing schools throughout the country.

Joe Hogan has the qualities of a hard-working, headstrong man, and is a good counter example because he does not fit the description of a man in Defining Men’s Studies. In this chapter, the status and achievement of men is described as being, “successful in everything they do, especially in sports, work, and sexual ‘conquest’. Powerful men earn respect and admiration of the others”. Hogan is working in a field that is dominated by women, and he has faced much opposition as it is rare to see a male nurse. The reason he was not accepted to the MUW was only because of the fact the his sex was not female, yet he has shown that with perseverance, you can do whatever you dream to, even if male stereotypes and the law is against you.