APA 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homoeroticism, Locutionary Act, Perlocutionary Act
12 Jan 2016
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There are many types of masculinities: physically big guys, lumberjacks, unemotional, climatized to the cold, tough, working class. Does it demean other qualities (emotional, smaller, etc. ), could eventually suppress actual qualities so one can fit into a dominant form. Idea of a dominant or hegemonic masculinity: always evolving, can be challenged but dominant. Ex: out for a rip are ya bud video: working class, language, plaid. Ex: bob and doug mackenzie video: emphasizing same jacket, hockey, etc. masculine behaviours (beer, smoking, making fun of food labels, Perpetual adolescence: never growing up, this is the priority: beer, hockey, the jokey stereotype that many people identify with. Anti-intellectualism: weirdly celebrated in the constructs of masculinity in. Play/non-serious qualities: cigarettes, alcohol, going for a rip, celebrated qualities, serious means you"re not into sports and seen as non- masculine. These are demeaning and devaluing characteristics/qualities but are somehow celebrated in popular culture representations of young canadian men.
