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Kruger's photographs say much more than the obvious about the discourse of masculinaty. Beyond this, they do give insight on how the wolrd views and creates their own geder identities. The male gender, often seen as the dominant by the proprietors and the objectors of it, has had interesting lnks with its own history. This dominance has a lot to do with what weve associated with with masculinity so long. these imgaes, in truth, are fairly simple and are not directly related to gender identtiy when yu break them down to simple asthetics. howver, they do represent the discourses of masculinity with their connotations, symbolisims, and ideologies. they represent what we have attributed to specific genders and their relationships with their own histories. this is not to say that hisotry, outcomes, and simple facts have leaned twords the male race in terms of superiority, it simply says that that is how many things have been percieved and treated.