Document Type
Freshman Essay
Publication Date
1990
Excerpt
With sweat glistening on his rippling muscles, Sylvester Stallone grasps his machine gun at his waist. With a sneer on his lips, he pulls the trigger and showers an enemy with bullets. Many movie-goers may remember this scene from Rambo. Action-adventure movies like Rambo, Indiana Jones, or Predator often have a male figure-as-their main character who is always muscular, unintelligent, mechanically gifted, and courageous. Speaking as a male, I feel such stereotypes generate a false image of the male gender.
Recommended Citation
Sundquist, John, "Is Rambo A Real Man? (1990)" (1990). The Valpo Core Reader. 387.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/387
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