RTA 310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Riki Wilchins, Judith Butler, Machismo
5 Jun 2017
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Week 4 gender in media riki wilchins. The personal is the political we can"t talk about politics without getting personal. Women"s rights are one thing, but to appear mannish is another issue. Gays are only socially acceptable if they don"t aunt their homosexuality. The public would only accept the macho gay: maintains masculine ideals, by switching the face of the gay movement from drags to macho gays, it became socially more acceptable. Viewing feminism from a white/westernized lense is dangerous af because it"s a very limiting pov. Strident, heterosexual models as normal : everything that doesn"t t into that box is considered abnormal, the need to come out . Judith butler: gender is a performance, gender is a construct, disrupting conventional notions of gender, we link gender so closely to our identity judith says. Simone de beauvoir: french philosopher, intellectual celebrity of france, early feminist and existentialist, considered deviant, one is not born, but becomes woman (the second.
