SOC367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rape Culture, Masculinity, Femininity
Lecture 5: SOC367 Race, Gender, Ethnicity
Part 1: Female Masculinity
Part 2: Transracial Mothering
In the News:
• The video of Trump on the bus talking to a TV person about lewd comments
• He thinks he can kiss women and touch any women however he pleases
• A big scramble in the republican party…people are divided because they have
daughters
• Some saying it is just locker room talk
• Power and heterosexual relations and rape culture
• Alarming and important conversation: it is a freeform discussion now
• This is the place in which people are discussing gender relations and if they
need to change
• Ontario Courts
o The judge says you cannot consent if you are passed out
o A man pouring vodka into a women’s mouth and her waking about
later
o He was found guilty of sexual assault
o What is consent? Ontario courts are trying to figure it out
o It is important for us to reflect on Pascoe on heterosexuality
▪ Rests on ta dichotomy of passivity and control that is enacted
through wrestling and flirtation, through banter that is
consistent with a rape paradigm and expectations and weak
notions of consent.
o Ariana Grande’s song…inappropriate
▪ Let’s not be aware of what we are doing…. scandalous song
▪ You will be held accountable for having a little less
conversation
▪ Connect all of these dots
o Affirmative Consent:
▪ No I am not interested…Yes I want to…should those statements
be used to make things clear
▪ We are engaging in this question because there is clearly a
need for it
• Gender Maneuvering
o Repertoires of response to recreational abuse
▪ Giggle: firm rejection.
▪ Femal masculinity?
▪ Basketball players
• Taking up space; making noise
• Desire
▪ GSA
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• Politicize culture
o Women engage in masculinity too
▪ If there was no variability than you would even be able to see
the differences
▪ While some young women giggled, some were very firm in
physical with there rejection
▪ Masculine force (pushing someone into the lockers, swearing….
all not feminine in favour of protection)
▪ Some women engage in female masculinity
▪ Women who engage in strategic masculinity can become
popular
• Using your body in sports
• Being loud
• When young women take up space in this way they are
more likely to connect with women
• A lot of reason ones desire structure changes
• It’s the safest route to avoid rape culture
• If you see yourself like a man you conform to the desire
structure of a man
• Link between sexual desire and sexual fluidity
• Popular culture that masculine women are gay,
feminine men are also gay
▪ This is in contrast to men who act in a feminine way
▪ A problematic schema that you might want to think through
▪ When people are called fag that is primarily about association
of people with femininity
▪ Take a much more political tack
• Do no get along with the basketball players
• Being called a whore in this social standing would not
help you
• What do I understand about gender maneuvering?
• How much room is there to play the requirements?
• It would be a mistake to break from the most basic
conforming conscriptions
• Much more room to maneuver
o Some peoples resistance is more powerful than others
o It aims to compete in the realm of masculinity that is highly respected
• What is the difference between feminine strength and masculinity?
• Impulses exist equally in women and men?
o Is strength in women just a strength in femininity
• Pascoe uses the traditional views of masculinity and femininity
o Maybe she should have left more space for people across different
backgrounds
o Men and women both experience depression but women internalize
men externalize
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