Topic > Analysis of Being a Man by Paul Theroux - 723

For example, on the news I hear stories of superstar athletes accused of many different crimes. Theroux goes into detail: “The manly attitude towards sport seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and simply louts” (6). After reading your quote, I was stunned. It is accurate and still true today. The Stanford rapist, who dragged a woman's unconscious body behind a dumpster to attack her, was sentenced to six months in county jail with probation because he was a white swimmer at a respectable college. On June 28, 2016, the same judge sentenced a Salvadoran immigrant who sexually assaulted his roommate to three years in state prison. Same crime. Both male. The white guy gets a slap on the wrist and the food chain isn't broken while the women keep doing it