SOCI 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Girly Girl, Tomboy, Heteronormativity
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Girls treat extreme forms of femininity as derisive. Girls have to do all these other things and compete with boys while still looking pretty. Students" explicit gendered beliefs were egalitarian but. Girls policed other girls, boys policed boys. Boys policed girls- repulsed by too much makeup. Boys dont police masculinity of openly gay boy but use terms gay and. Girls- middle not girly girl or tomboy . Boys teased for anything seen as feminine. Context = heteronormative puberty and teacher police. Roles are becoming more conforming than within preschool. Institutional domain: feminism, gay rights movements, and title ix legislation. Fag discourse policies gender for boys- pascoe. Fag discourse is not just about homophobia. Fag epithet may or may not have sexual meanings but always has a gendered meaning, you are not a man . You are not a man = you are not a full human being.
