GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hegemonic Masculinity, Transphobia, Masculinity
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Challenging subject: messy, prevalence of rape myths, close to home. Sexual assaults (cid:1007) (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)i(cid:271)uti(cid:374)g fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s to high (cid:396)ates of se(cid:454)ual assault, u(cid:374)de(cid:396)potti(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)d la(cid:449)"s ineffectuality: codes of hegemonic masculinity, social beliefs about rape and sexual assault, structure of law itself. Hegemonic masculinity: violence= predictable outcome of hegemonic codes of masculinity, linked to sexism, misogyny, and homophobia, transphobia, sexual violence= highly gendered and pervasive, rape= resource for doing masculinity, sexual violence is not inevitable. Sexual violence: direct link between gender norms, rape myths, and ineffective effort to stop sexual violence. Their psychic complexes are multifarious a(cid:374)d disto(cid:396)ted. o(cid:374)e fo(cid:396)(cid:373) take(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) these (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454)es is that of contriving false charges of sexual offences by men. 2: a person who is attractive enough to make the struggle of raping them worthwhile. Ijjima: "brown san, have you seen the new female lt?" Lcpl brown: " yeah, you mean lt hottie?" Ijjima: "so you think shes good looking then?"
