Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Guy Code, Bsc Young Boys, Homosociality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

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Ones that highlight and value compassion, empathy or vulnerability: element of race is important in not showing vulnerability. The boy code: the three worst words you could say to a boy are be a man", supress feelings associated with the maternal (momma"s boy has negative connotations) Because that"s like saying that you"re nothing. pascoe, 2005. In pascoe"s study, becoming a fag" has to do with: 1) failing at masculine task of competence, 2) failing at heterosexual prowess. Becoming emotionally illiterate: 2) if you can"t access full range of emotions, it will have a limit on your role and relationships in life. More human and alike than you are gendered and different. Social constructs make us believe men are less emotional. Violence and masculinity: we have a rape culture, we have a rape culture jackson katz: we have a rape culture. What that means is that individual rapists aren"t just crawling out of the swamp.