SOCB22H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Vice Principals, Homophobia
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Both the boys and girls she interviewed told her that fag was the worst slur guys could direct at each other. She observed that girls rarely used the word fag and were never called fags. When pascoe asked one student what kind of things do guys get called fag" for? he answered: anything literally, anything. Like you were trying to turn a wrench the wrong way: dude, you"re a fag. " being labeled fag, she discovered, had less to do with sexuality and much more to do with masculinity. In the book she points out that drama class was a setting where male students could behave in unmasculine ways without fear of being teased. In that way, drama class offered a break from the pressure that boys exerted on each other to enact a specific form of masculinity. She also mentions that boys spoke with her one-on-one about their feelings about girls in mature ways.
