FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ableism, Laci Green, Betty Friedan

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

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Fem1100 - lecture 4: second wave, intersectionality, and privilege. Play on words for tough guys and disguise adopting a front to avoid homophobic and sexist put downs not born like that it"s a societal fabrication of masculinity projection, pose. Paradox: test of being a real man is how well you can live up to standards. Shield because we teach boys and men they can"t show emotion, sign of weakness, only way to do this is cover it up with violence and anger. Result is social breeding ground for men"s violence: according to katz, violence is an overwhelmingly gendered phenomenon. In media, they use non-gendered terms such as the shooter , the murderers but when it"s women the media emphasizes the gender as if it is not the norm. When in community of colour, the race is emphasized by the media.