SOCI 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Walter Francis Willcox, The Bell Curve, Gender Inequality
16 May 2018
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SOCI 495
February 26, 2018
Gender inequality continued
• Woe suffes fo disiiatio: a outies still hae legal disiiatio
• Questio aout a zeo su gae? Woe go up, ad e go do? The ol a fo oe
to improve is if men fall?
• Do e fae gede ieualit?
The Global Level
• Soieties ith oe eualit fo oe atuall do ette o a hole age of issues that ae
important for both men and women
• Higher GDP and lower poverty --> richer
• Crime rates are lower
• Lower involvement in war and international conflicts and civil conflicts
• More democracy and individual freedoms
• Better quality of life and satisfaction for both men and women
• These ae oelatios, ut these thigs go togethe so it is tellig
• What auses hat? We need to be careful. Gender equality and these benefits go together.
Gender Inequality and Men
• Negatie ipats o idiidual e
• Stoi e --> mental health leads to drug abuse and suicide
• / of hoiide itis ae e
• Iig Goffa: "I the US, thee's ol oe…a a ho fails to ualif i these as is
likely to feel incomplete, unworthy"
• Steeotpes of hat is feiie, idiates hat is asulie
• Feiist sholas hae deostated that eig a "eal a" is just as ipossible as being a
real, complete, ideal women --> impossible ideals of masculinity
• Hoophoia --> damages both men and women because what homophobia is is a constant
policing of others, and causes a constant need to prove that you are not gay
• Can't prove it through sleeping with a lot of women
• About your behaviours, what shows that you're gay is feminine behaviours
• A real man is someone blocking all feminine traits --> blocking things that make you happy
• Me's health --> epidemiology shows that men have a shorter lifespan and less healthier
lifetime than women
• Genetics
• Social and behavioural factors play a bigger role --> smoke and drink more, more men die
from alcohol related causes, they eat substantially more unhealthy food, start to have
heart attacks and strokes about a decade earlier than women, avoid going to doctors
more than women
• A real man doesn't care too much, doesn't show weakness, healthy appetite, hold your
liquor, take risks, drive fast, victims of crimes at a much higher rate (main victim of every
other crime other than rape and sexual assault), murder is high, violent assault, many
more men die in wars and on the road
• Studies that show men are much more likely to die when they seat in the front or drivers
seat eause the do’t use seatelts --> reckless
Video about men and feminism
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