There are many reasons why men become gay. It is not merely because they want to engage themselves in sexual activities with other men for sexual pleasures. In fact, most of the gays do not become gay from the first place. However, becoming gay is a gradual process. By interacting with others of same sex, men not only can feel true affection, but also discover more about themselves. However, since statuses of gays are quite low, and often become the topic of mockery in many places, they do not openly express their true feelings. The sexual identity and gender identity is quite different for heterosexual and homosexual men.
"The gendered eroticism of these men, the masculine social presence most of them maintain, their focus on privatized couple relatoinships and their lack of solidarity with feminism point in the same direction. There is no open challenge to the gender order here" (Connell 161)
"Men of Reason" are the 4th group that Connell explains as the dominant men. It mainly discusses elite schools, the places boys get educated to be experts at their respective fields and increase their logics and rationale. In the workforce, a hierarchically organized workplaces, when a man does his interview for the first time, he is actually expecting to eventually overcome the person who is interviewing him. Reasons and technology are more important than one would imagine in Masculinity; they serve as one of the main sources of power.
"Rationality is in certain ways a disturbing element in gender relations. Its social forms (such as market rationality and legal equality) corrode gender hierarchy and support feminist resistance. Its institutionalization in the knowledge-based workplace corrodes authority and sets up tensions within hegemonic masculinity. Technical reason can be mobilized for a project of change, even though it does not address the ultimate goals of change." (Connell 181)
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