When he is younger Yunior doesn’t exhibit toxic masculinity nor does he care for gender roles as he still speaks with Beto even after he found out that he was gay, but as the story continues we can see Yunior begin to be more assertive with the women in his life. This is similar to what happens in the novel Yunior wasn’t masculine enough at times which made him feel like he was at times different than his brother Rafa. By telling people that they need to either be masculine or feminine and then leads to people feeling like an outcast. “Gender roles maintain the sexist structure of society, and heterosexism reinforces those roles-for example, by casting such epithets as faggot, dyke, and homo at people who stepped outside designated gender roles”. Children being told what they can and cannot do because of there gender leads to toxic masculinity and many people do it without knowing it. A girl must be feminine and a boy masculine a female must be submissive and the male must be dominant. This isn’t something that people just deal with in books this happens all around us when people place labels on children. Which shows how the narrator subtly implied how Beto was gay and they weren’t that close after he found out. The Spanish word “pato” means gay in a negative way. Even though Yunior was friends with someone who was gay they seem to have distanced themselves, “He’s a pato now but two years ago we were friends and he would walk into the apartment without knocking…, one could assume that they distanced themselves because Beto isn’t masculine enough and doesn’t follow the norms placed on him by the rest of society.
We also get to observe how being masculine you must be with several women and you also can’t be gay.
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