In the book "Their eyes were were watching god" one can clearly see the machismo coming from Jody to Janie. Jody didn't let Janie to be her self, he was very jealous of her talking to other people, and he didn't want other guys to look at her. I think that machismo is something that should change, but if you look it from other perspective humans will always think they can control everything around them, because everyone at the end want their own good.

There has always been machimo, becouse women had always had more needs for everything, so they can't get the same jobs as men. Also since we know history has always given us men in everything since science to politics, and later on women had rigths.

Janie as we know was married before with Logan and she started meeting secretly with Jody, and Jody know that and ofcourse he can think Janie can do the same thing to him with other guy, to cheat on him. A women from what she does, she wins or changes the respect a men has toward her, and Janie didn't show Jody respect of her relationship with Logan. If she would have been more carefull with that, probably all the bad treatment and jealous coming from Jody would have never happened.

One builds how people will see them, and even if Janie just wanted her own happiness, she didn't search it properly, but is not her fault, because in an century when people is racist and, there is a lot of machismo, she desperately choose what ever that seemed to give her happines.