If a man were deficient in those areas, he could face discrimination, oppression and sometimes violence for not respecting the gender rules recognized by society. Nowadays men need to be more open to homosexuality and be able to coexist with each other, which was not common in the 1960s, forcing men to be open-minded. Being a man and being open-minded means that men now have to see the world from a much wider angle to be in control. Being a man has definitely become more difficult today than in past generations. “The desire to be alone seems to say that there is something wrong with him” (Theroux 508). And even today, if men wish to be alone, society can easily assume that there is something wrong with them. Men who need to be open-minded have kind of let go of that macho attitude that was once respected