SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Victim Blaming, Homophobia, Masculinity
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Men, often younger men overwhelmingly commit more serious and violent crimes than women. The social definition of masculinity has a significant impact on men"s propensity towards violence (always having to be tough). In a society where hegemonic definition involving being tough, rate of violence will be higher. White men tend to play the saviors in movies (taken example) Taken: girls get kidnapped by evil muslim men and white man comes to the rescue. U. s. black people are consistently being subjected to police brutality. the wire: black masculinity (dangerous masculinity) Men socialization is in part legitimization of violence. Men have a greater tendency toward risk-taking behaviors because there is competition to reassert masculinity. school shootings have mostly targeted girls and it is done often by men (but this is never mentioned in the media) Man who went into a university and shot female engineering students.
