SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heteronormativity, It Gets Better Project, Gangsta Rap
29 Apr 2016
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Circulates in: advertising, music, film, television, toys. Sex understood through the perspective of male activity. Women represented as passive vehicles for male pleasure. The rightness of male sexual domination of women is assumed (375) The precariousness of heterosexual masculinity is both denied and repeatedly demonstrated (p. 376) Objectification of women: women as objects, reduced to body parts, women as natural resource, closer to nature, women as passive and inert. Therefore women are not seen as: having their own sexual desire, being active in pursuing desire, as victims of sexual violence. Homophobia & homoeroticism: the appeal of women-on-women sex in straight porn (p. 379, the homoerotic consumption of porn. Women as another form of status symbol (with drugs, bling, etc). Bitches= named to be controlled, manipulative (gold digger), accessible. 70% of the audience of gangsta rap = young, white men. Produce & reproduce image of predatory black man".
