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James Hamblin’s article “Trump is a Climax of American Masculinity” appeared in the online version of the American magazine The Atlantic on 8th of August, 2016.

The Atlantic was founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts. Historically, the magazine is known for literary and cultural topics but also for publishing known writers’ commentary on issues such as education, civil rights, and political affairs. Today, the magazine publishes articles on topics such as foreign affairs, politics, economy, health, technology, and cultural trends. It has a reputation for being a politically moderate, left-leaning, and serious magazine.

Considering that the article was published online, we can say that the article is, first of all, aimed at readers who use the internet to inform themselves. Moreover, the article is aimed at educated readers, since it is written with complex sentences and somewhat difficult words such as “propensity”(l.19), “procurement” (l.23), “fomented” (l.35) , “parity” (l. 76), etc. and expresses complex ideas about gender stereotypes and cultural issues. The writer does not feel the need to explain more complex concepts, such as masculine culture, white male dominance, the patriarchal society, the “boys-will-be-boys system” (l. 79-80), etc. From this, we can conclude ...