SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sexual Intercourse, Slut, Human Female Sexuality
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Daily expected lives for girls is violence and sexual harassment of older men. Boys will be boys notion = expectation that this is what happens: heteronormative scripts: roles that genders play, interpret, act out, manifest, compulsory heteronormativity: what is normal and natural behavior in society; males are. Dominant, aggressive, driven by desire and females are submissive, passive, gatekeepers : gatekeeping: woman"s job to protect herself against aggressive, desire-driven men and even consensual premarital sexual behavior; women are gatekeepers of own. Women are often the first perpetrators of slut shaming bc they don"t want to admit that it could just as easily happen to them. Institutionalization of drunk driving; it"s non preventative; but sexual assault avoidance is easy, no alcohol, wear conservative clothing, walk w/ friends . Normalizing sexual violence: young women account for harassment and abuse. Almost half the girls experienced violence, but a small percent reported it. Gendered power dynamics of adolescent sexual development.
