So you are going to ask yourself, what is machismo ? So machismo have many aspects of Latin American male behavior, machismo mean the difference between the power of males and females. In terms of machismo, males have an “expansive and almost uncontrollable” sexual appetite, the word machismo come from one word that is (macho) wich mean brave man, in latin america almost every girl is like esperanza's granma the women's are at home they clean and they serve to the man. …show more content…
So Esperanza express what she was thinking, she doesn't want to be another victim of machismo, she want to be free, have her own decision and have her own job and money, esperanzas decision is similar to what happen in the the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, girls decided that they didn't want to be Slaves of the mans, this made a new term call feminism which start to make thousands of girls express their opinion about the situation of machismo in america so they went to the streets and protest because they were trying to Make equality between men and