GSWS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bro Code, Cultural Capital, Heterosexuality
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Video: straightlaced - how gender"s got us all tied up. Pascoe: adolescent masculinity is understood in this setting as a form of dominance usually expressed through sexualised discourses . > masculinity assumed to be synonymous with heterosexuality. > boys talking about heterosexuality are and are not talking about sex . > centrality of the ability to exercise mastery and dominance literally or figuratively over girls" bodies . Non normative girls were not subject to punishment as boys were. Some loud masculine girls were very popular, in contrast to the diversify girls. > difference in race (diversify = black, stereotyped to be loud/less feminine so they may be seen as annoying, but the white girls who are stereotypically more subtle, when they are loud - they are special/stand out) Youtube the bro code: how contemporary culture creates sexist men . Identity/expression activity (learning what it feels like to hide who you are) by caroline gould.