Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Tazz, Masculinity, Heterosexuality

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What did you enjoy about it: what do you make of the announcers in wrestling. Making men: culture shapes and reflects our ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman, reinforces what most men want to be like. Professional wrestling offers males in our society a traditional, conservative definition of masculinity that emphasizes: strength, intimidation, violence, and control of others. Professional wrestling models how to be a man: all other definitions of masculinity become defines as the deviant. Stone cold, while whipping tazz, says, you gotta learn about respect from stone cold steve. Professional wrestling reinforces homophobic, heteronormative definitions of masculinity: it is assumed that everybody there is heterosexual, the wwe consistently emphasizes that heterosexuality of its professional wrestlers. Purpose of female professional wrestlers is to emphasize the straightness of the male wrestlers: often, when women are integrated into wrestling narratives it"s within the structure of masculine violence, humiliation, and fantasy.

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