FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Douglas Rushkoff, Heterosexuality, Masturbation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

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1. tough guise suggests that masculinity is made, not given. Explain this argument using specific examples drawn from the film: according to jason katz, violence is an overwhelmingly gendered phenomenon. In the school shootings not showing what gender did the shooting. If a woman was raped but not saying what gender did it. So little diversity of images for men of color. Men of color have gotten so much taken away from them so they have to have this tough act. The fact of men being male strippers in the past was seen as okay but not it is look down upon. He had to force himself to think of women in a sexual way. He would make the effort to show the guys that he was with the girls. He forced himself to masturbate looking at the porn. People are trying to figure out why are people gay but never why people are straight.