Differences

I believe the first picture is describing how the feelings of men are not only predictable, but also that a man’s response to an event is almost completely controlled by the rules of masculinity. Kruger was showing us that men’s emotions, much like the military with it’s “standard issue” weapons, boots, morals, and procedures, have their own regulations and expectations to “fall in” with the rest of the group (in this case other men).

The second picture illustrates, what I believe is to be credited to Foucault, man’s “will to knowledge”. The idea is that man is obsessed with trying to understand things, to figure out the truths of life. Foucault describes this as one of man’s strongest desires. The use of the word mania ascribes a negative connotation to this desire, possibly showing that some of the things we explore are frivolous.

Science and history are masculine discourses because a majority of the works written are from the male perspective. The very procedures and rules that are used within the discourses were developed before women began working in them. If the fundamentals, or the bedrock of a discourse is made by males, then one could assume they were made in a way that men could easy use. This can be a problem because women and men think differently.