Thinking about RaceSexuality

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Thinking about Race/Sexuality
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White Privilege

• Oppression is relational
• Meaning?
• If we look at oppression as something that just
  happens and as something that we do not help
  create, what happens?
• Each one of us in this country is privileged

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White Privilege

• In what ways do we help contribute to oppression?

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Masculinity and Homophobia

• 1) Just like other constructs, masculinity shifts
  over time and place.
• 2) Prior to industrialization there were two
  types of man Heroic Artisan (yeoman) and
  Genteel Patriarch (both autonomous but
  democratic)
• 3) Today, men are supposed to exhibit masculinity
  in one way
• MARKETPLACE MAN
• Strong, no emotions, financially successful,
  isolated, must accumulate goods to show how
  successful one is, not female.

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Marketplace Man

• Always afraid of
• Being emasculated
• Being emotional
• Showing anything but anger
• Being thought of as a sissy gay
• Anti-femininity lies at the heart of Marketplace
  Man
• What does this mean and how does it play out.

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Marketplace Man

• Masculinity as Homosocial Enactment
• MM is always trying to prove to other men that he
  is manly. So MM can be soft with women, but
  tough with men.
• Men must always parade the markers of manhood
  wealth, power, sexy women
• Example of Coldplay
• Women are seen as props to support malehood, not
  as individuals

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Marketplace Man

• Masculinity as Homophobia
• Central to masculinity is homophobia.
• homophobia is the fear that othermen will
  unmask us, emasculate us, reveal to us and the
  world that we do not measure up, that we are not
  real men. 87
• Ask a boy, whos a sissy.
• Peers are gender police. It affects how men talk.
  How men walk.

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• Homophobia leads to sexism, heterosexism and
  racism.
• Given that masculinity requires an other,
  categories exist and categories create isms.
• Men are raised feeling that they are ENTITLED to
  power. Yet, they never quite reach it.the
  outcome is fear of humiliation.