SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Transvestism, Heteronormativity, Sexualization
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Sexual roles in relationships, jewelry/sex/other commercials, wedding rituals are very gendered, dating advice columns. Children"s media, his/hers commercials/products, doing family, doing gender to others, sports culture, children"s toys - barbie/ken, Women are nurturing, men will provide, chastity paradox, men as initiators, women as supporters men are the doers , women are expected to be more emotionally attached, men noncommittal. Marriage was an expectation; love could exist but that doesn"t mean it was a prerequisite. Love used to be a sign of affection; men to men romance was intense bond of intimacy. Romance used to = masculinity; women too dumb to know how to write true romantic forms. Media/movie trope: men fucks up, needs to do an obnoxious, public romantic gesture to prove his love for her; she just falls into love without any control. Heteronormativity is an unavoidable structure of social life - always assumed = privileged. Homosexuality becomes the other where heterosexuality defines itself.
