COMS 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reductionism, Utopia, Virtual Reality

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 200
• Professor: Christopher Gutierrez

Document Summary

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture that manages to be simultaneously hyper sexualized and to retain its puritan underpinnings in precisely equal proportions. Many of us manage to summon merciful self-explanations as required, or have learned over the years to deploy the strategic exception, when it comes to infidelity. Contradictions at the epicenter of love in our time due to infidelity. Planning a life and also planning escapes from it. Adultery traditionally requires a state-issued marriage license for at least one of the parties involved. Anywhere the commitment to monogamy reigns, adultery provides its structural transgression. Our focus will be on social norms of love rather than what we expect of it. These days any partner can play any gender role (masculine or feminine) regardless of their sex or sexual orientation. Kipnis talks about gender norms saying whoever wants more freedom is the guy, whoever has their suspicions is the wife.