Norah Vincent concludes that it was hard being a guy and that overall, she didn’t like it. She came to many conclusions though that served her purpose for making women realize what men go through and what it’s like to live in a man’s world. Vincent describes the expectations that men have. They are completely different from women in the sense that there is this ideal image that every man has to live up to. They are not allowed to be complete human being and aren’t technically allowed to do some of the things girls do, such as cry and have emotions.
The sex drives that men have are something that women could never understand. Even Vincent stated that “I’ll never truly know what that drive feels like on the brain when testosterone is fueling it, but I saw how by turns brutish and powerless a man can feel in the company of women and how bitter and often puerile he can be in the company of men.”
Men also have a completely different type of language that they speak and a dialogue that is sometimes disturbing to women. Men think that they’re all that when they talk dirty and swear. Vincent found out that they’re obsessions with fucking and competing and hazing just make them feel that much more powerful. On the other hand, Vincent said that she knew where much of the language was coming from because of the hard lives that men lead and how it is just a way of getting out their distress.
Rejection was one of the things that Ned had a hard time with. The ability for men to get up enough courage to ask a woman on a date takes a lot of guts. When Ned got rejected the first couple times, he thought he was never going to get a date. He thought that dating was going to be the fun and easy part of being a man, but he was proved wrong when rejection came into his life. But Curtis was there to help him along and give him that extra bit of confidence and tell him to be a man. Ned also dealt with rejection when it came to his work life. Going door-to-door selling books and coupons sounds easy, but Ned thought it was going to be impossible when he got rejected countless times. He was told to be a man again and buck up, and once he did this he ended up being in control and selling book after book and making great money.
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