SOCI 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hypermasculinity, Michael Kimmel, Norm (Social)
11 Sep 2017
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The authors critique monolithic analyses of privilege because they do not examine individuals who can be privileged in certain aspects of their lives, while oppressed in others. They criticize the approach looking at privilege from one perspective turns it into a dichotomy: either someone has privilege or one does not. The issue with generic explanations of masculine privilege is that it excludes individuals from identifying as men. society, in upholding certain standards of what masculinity is and should be, details who can be considered men and who cannot. The most significant contribution is the discussion of working-class men wherein they use their status as working class/the stereotypes surrounding being working class as a method of renouncing responsibility for their actions/thoughts. Though these men may recognize themselves as real men they do not obtain legitimatized benefits from their status, forcing them to compensate for their lack of masculinity in other ways, such as hypermasculinity being abusive, sexual, brutish.
