SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Afterellen.Com And Thebacklot.Com, American Family Association, Genderqueer
9 Dec 2015
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The notion of the warrior male is an essential component of wars, aggression and domination. Also benefits corporate interests because it is used to sell products. Ads often glorify hyper-masculinity by contrasting it with homophobic images. In july 2008, nike pulled several ads which had come under fire for their blatant homophobia. Posits sexual identity as a fundamental, unchanging core of meaning that precedes and transcends culture and politics. According to this theory, sexual identity derives its sense and legitimacy through its grounding in nature and/or history, where. History is seen as an unbroken line of development whose truth is unquestionable. Emphasizes the cultural and political circumstances in which identities are produced. It foregrounds the complex processes through which narratives of sexual identity express broader social relations, including and especially relations of power. Those relations remain invisible to the extent that identities are naturalized that is, represented as outside or prior to particular historical circumstances.
