Hook Up Culture Analysis
Lisa Wade, a professor at Occidental College in Los Angles, California gave a talk about the hook-up culture on college campuses. She started the talk with college being a big, four-year orgy. I never thought about college being a big orgy, until I thought about my experience at my first college, Saint Lawrence University. The period I attended St. Lawrence University, I was so naïve to the hook-up culture, especially in my own sexual community, the gay community. Once I explored and engaged in the hook-up culture in the very small gay community, I understood Lisa Wade’s comment. She gave good statistics about the percentage of college students’ reactions to the hook-up culture. She said 15 % to 25 % loves it while the 85 % to 75% hates it.
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Young people do things because it is the popular thing to do now. It is more common for men to hook-up than to women. For some strange reason, it is rite of passage to manhood for a young man to sleep with many high status women on their campuses. In this patriarchal society, it is okay for men to use women to upkeep or increase their reputation. It is a way for men to get their stamp of approval from their friends, associates, and male family members. If a female do the same thing, she is label and consider very loose sexual; sometimes disown from her friends, associates, and family members. In addition, the hook-up culture could be very cold and mean to the involving people. The rules of hooking up are be sexual involve with someone you hardly know or dislike, be drunk, make sure it is a hot hook-up, no kissing, no cuddling, no holding hands, and act less friendly towards each other in public. The hook-up culture make appears like a war not a sexual encounter. Overall, no one should be catching feelings in these one-night stands. Hook-up culture is gender inequality because men receives three times the organisms than the women; men use female to their advantage on the social, sexual ladder. Hook-up is a trend that uses females to boost the ego and reputation around college campuses. Is this culture and trend cater to men just because we live in a hegemonic world? The answer is yes without any
Young people do things because it is the popular thing to do now. It is more common for men to hook-up than to women. For some strange reason, it is rite of passage to manhood for a young man to sleep with many high status women on their campuses. In this patriarchal society, it is okay for men to use women to upkeep or increase their reputation. It is a way for men to get their stamp of approval from their friends, associates, and male family members. If a female do the same thing, she is label and consider very loose sexual; sometimes disown from her friends, associates, and family members. In addition, the hook-up culture could be very cold and mean to the involving people. The rules of hooking up are be sexual involve with someone you hardly know or dislike, be drunk, make sure it is a hot hook-up, no kissing, no cuddling, no holding hands, and act less friendly towards each other in public. The hook-up culture make appears like a war not a sexual encounter. Overall, no one should be catching feelings in these one-night stands. Hook-up culture is gender inequality because men receives three times the organisms than the women; men use female to their advantage on the social, sexual ladder. Hook-up is a trend that uses females to boost the ego and reputation around college campuses. Is this culture and trend cater to men just because we live in a hegemonic world? The answer is yes without any