WS100 Lecture 16: WS100 - Lecture 16
Document Summary
When we talk about sexism, we are actually talking about the factors of masculinity. Little boys can be angry, but they cant be sad. Does so much damage from the possibility of having a different type of relationship. How boys are pushed into masculinity and only know themselves in those terms. Took virtues and divided them between men and women. Women always need to be protected - men are our protectors. We don"t want to look at it in a ___ way. If we do, we see the production of a form of masculinity (about social, political and economic factors as well) When men and women come together in conversation. Women could have said it already, but we applaud it once a man says it. When men take on attributes of a woman, he is considered a gay man. Mother taken down for making him too dependent on her. Wont provide him with skills and advocacy in life.
