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Thus, the very structure of the military makes the status of a “real” man particularly fragile and contradictory because the institution claims a vigor-ous, aggressive, and virile ideal of masculinity while subjecting its soldiers to obedience, submission, and humiliation.
This passage highlights the issues that arise when categorizing the standard for, the "real" man, or like discussed in lecture the "true" solider. Here the author does a spectacular job at highlighting the irony of the conditioning imposed on soldiers. In lecture it was also demonstrated how such practices as, cross dressing began emerging because of the imposed ideology of the "true" soldier.
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