SOCI 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bachelor Party, Spurious Relationship, Heterosexuality
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School shootings result from imposed loss of power for enduring period leading to lashing out to demonstrate remaining power and control. You name the societal ill or problematic group from violent boys to promiscuous girls to everything in between and right there in the middle you"ll find broken homes, unstable families and absent fathers . This is a spurious relationship, because c causes both. Men in these societies control women so that they can be in control of something and understand themselves as true men. Sexual separation forces men into a posture of providing their manhood, one of these ways being sexual violence (men do things with men; boys night, bachelor parties) Perceived loss of control leads men to act out and exert remaining power through rape/sexual violence (talk about penis as weapon) The phallus becomes the dominant symbol of discourse . Rape prone attitudes are adopted by insecure young men who bond through heterosexuality:
