Male identification:

Technology, business

Requiring body fitness

Need to feel adequate at work, at sex

Admiring guns, weapons, war, fast cars, sexually libertine women, reading & viewing pornography

Risktaking, drinking

Female Identification:

Nurturing, life-giving qualities

Creativity

Openness, yielding to other people, intimate relationships (romance)

Intuition

Beauty, body image, high heels, cleavage, makeup

Moms and Dads

Father ofJon OstermanDoctor Manhattan

Sally, Mother of Laurie

Veidt’s Mother and Father

Osymandias and Alexander the Great

Gay and Lesbian Stereotypes

Male Stereotypes

Male Performance Anxieties

A Narrative Shift

Male Body Image

Walter’s Mom and Rorschach

Hopeless

Roy LictensteinOil on Canvas44x44 inches1963

Thinking of HimRoy Lichtenstein

68x68 inches

1963