![]() ![]() A man’s presence may be fabricated as he might pretend to be capable even when he is not. The promised power, be it physical, moral, temperamental, sexual or even social always appears to be exterior to the man. ![]() A striking presence of a man is the result of the large and credible promise that he holds and if it happens to be small, he is seen as having little presence. The social presence of a man is said to largely depend on the promise of the purported power that he embodies. According to the author, the aforementioned generalization is as a result of long-held conventions that the social presence of a woman is differs in kind when compared to that of a man. In the third chapter of John Berger’s book, Ways of Seeing, one might generalize that “men act and women appear”. ![]()
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