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What strikes me about masculinity is that it seems like a strange thing to study.  It's so super broad that I don't understand how one can write about it "academically."  I understand the kind of man that the article we read is talking about - no doubt those kind of men exist.  But there are so many different kind of men; there are probably more men outside the stereotypical masculine man than in it.  So while I found the article fairly interesting, I got irritated by its overgeneralizations.  But then again, maybe "masculinity" is describing "those kind of men."  I don't know.  Categories and terms are really starting to make me angry.  

This isn't about masculinity or anything, but more just a general wondering.  Do any of you ever wonder about the significance of what we study?  It might be the most interesting thing in the world to you to study masculinity in our society.  Or it might seem like you are meant to be a part of the transgender movement.  We all find those things in our lives that we are passionate about and we follow it.  But what if it all just doesn't matter?  What if we are all just the size of an ant to something far bigger, but we can't even conceptualize something far bigger.  Like an ant probably doesn't conceptualize us as a dominant species that is thousands of time bigger than them.  To them we are just movement.  So what if, say, the sky's movement is actually some species that is far bigger than us moving around above us.  What if we really aren't important.  And we sit in class and we discuss, say, masculinity, but really there is a whole universe of something that is far more significant out there.  Do we just ignore the fact that we are probably insignificant in attempts to just be happy with whatever we are doing or studying?