tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21063785.post1216985140956761632..comments2023-04-01T18:59:13.960-07:00Comments on Blogging Intro to Political Theory: Robert Jenson, Getting Off (an excerpt)Ric Carichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715258697811131789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21063785.post-17540147762238172972007-12-13T08:35:00.000-08:002007-12-13T08:35:00.000-08:00I think this is a crucial idea in american culture...I think this is a crucial idea in american culture. What stands out the most to me is the idea that pornography “whispers” to men. Our culture has created an idea of what masculinity is. If men do not follow that mold they are not considered to be good enough for the gender structure of this nation. Enter the gay bashing and homophobia. The need to conform to what american masculinity is has become exemplified by the pornographic male. Typically he is large in stature. He has a swagger of cockiness about him. He then enters and takes complete advantage of what he wishes to control. This model has plagued american males. The cultural pressure to fulfill the male stereotype causes many to buckle and give in. thus if men stray they are looked at as weak and wrong. This sad teaching has been an experience I have encountered my whole life. Being raised by a single mother I relate to feminist ideals. The ideas of non-objectification and equal rights for women has often led me to heated discussions with fellow males. These pornographic male ideals encourage men to treat women as sexual objects. It is expected of a man to make sexual comments about women on a daily bases. When I stand against this practice pornographic males become increasingly defensive and homophobic. Challenging the typical male status quo is not welcome in most male circles.Mumia Abu-Jamalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09484680368605511090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21063785.post-88558571416888864762007-12-11T18:59:00.000-08:002007-12-11T18:59:00.000-08:00When I read this article this main thing that stuc...When I read this article this main thing that stuck out was the fact that masculinity is portrayed through sex. Sure there are other ways that men show their masculinity such as being successful in their profession, fighting off others, being strong/tough, have lots of money, then there is the thing of pleasuring a woman during sexual intercourse. Most men believe they are not really a man until they have engaged in sexual intercourse and therefore they actually have to be successful at it. <BR/> The masculinity degree in sex has led to pornography and therefore crimes and abuse against women, because they are the weaker sex and men supposedly dominate at all times. Just like in the King o the Hill game the author talks about, men climb to the time of the sexual hill and they master it. Catherine Mackinnon is a feminist who talks about masculinity and the effect it has on the abuse and crime rates against women. She believes that since men believe they dominate and control women therefore they have the right to do whatever they please with them. The mans belief however is very untrue because today women are beginning to stand up and prosecute these men and make them pay for all the horrible things they have done. Hopefully the new women of today will finally put men in their place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21063785.post-21024451400925990032007-11-29T10:01:00.000-08:002007-11-29T10:01:00.000-08:00This article boils me up from the start by introdu...This article boils me up from the start by introducing the idea of king of the hill a common video game objective. The basic idea is the same as the last man standing but to control a certain area and remain the last man standing. The first point I want to make is that this is feminism right off the bat with the phrase "concept of masculinity: no one is ever safe, and everyone loses something." This is a very feminist idea, masculinity is not defined as a means of control or at least shouldn't be defined as a means of control. Masculinity could be described as anything from the amount of muscle tone a man has to the amount of money he has. There is no one sure cut definition for being a masculine man.<BR/><BR/>The next tie in between king-of-the-hill rape and battery is based on the idea that men need control in order to get pleasure but is that true? Does a woman not need to have a man run errands, and do things for her the same as a man would for a woman? Could a woman not be as sexually strained or ravagenous as a man? Yes it is true a man is naturally with a much more muscular body which would make it more likely that sexual assault/rape would be possible. But the thing that no one realizes is that the woman has both the tools and the edge in this domain.<BR/><BR/>First how many people would expect a woman to be able of raping a man? How about how many people would expect that a woman could moleste a young child? Now ask the same question to yourself and replace a woman with a man. 99% of Americans would probabley agree that the man is much more likely to commit such crimes instead of a woman. But does this expectancy make the reality true? Even if a male had the courage to go to court and say that he was raped by a woman how much sarcasm and doubt would the jury have to endure to even consider the idea.<BR/><BR/>In america today men are the leading rapists by leaps and bounds but that doesn't mean the information is accurate and that women couldn't be just as much at fault but with there victims not comming forward. In Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex she writes "In the bosom of the family, woman seems in the eyes of childhood and youth to be clothed in the same social dignity as the adult males." Women should be treated equally to men, but that doesn't mean that there should be a handicap too give them a leg up if equality is what is wanted then equality is what should be given.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com