ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ruth Vanita, Street-Level Characters Of The Wire, Polemic
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Love in the gray zone: moral wasteland where there is no right and wrong possible because everything is terrible, like the chronic and ordinary cruddiness of life . Polemics of interpersonal blame : poor and homeless people as pawns in political games, crackdowns on crime, etc, petey and scotty, scotty"s suicide/death being blamed on petey. Endurance and exclusion: removing themselves from family because they couldn"t do family the way they should or wanted, men loving each other in order to endure a difficult life, also a way to exclude women. Not always homo : behaviour and identity, tops and bottoms. Certain intimate behaviour between men being collapsed into just being gay. Hank penetrating petey is not homosexual because it is a form of disciplining petey; it is an act of power and masculinity because he is on top . Petey in this scenario is the homosexual: a modern, and unnatural , category.
