Summary Of Guys Are Just Homophobic
In “’Guys Are Just Homophobic,’" C. J. Pascoe sums up fag discourse with the lines “Through making homophobic jokes, calling other boys gay and imitating effeminate men boys attempt to assure themselves and others of their masculinity” and “ Jeremy emphasized that this insult literally reduced a boy to nothing, ‘To call someone gay or fag is like the lowest thing you can call someone. Because that's like saying that you're nothing’” (177). Through these line, Pascoe is saying that fag discourse is when men are fueled to use the term fag to assure everyone that they are the hegemonic masculinity. We learn about hegemonic masculinity from R. W. Connell’s “The Social Organization of Masculinity.” It is this book where Connell has a heavy focus
on the idea “‘Masculinity does not exist except in contrast with ‘femininity’ (68). Putting it all together would get fag discourse only exist men as masculinity and masculinity only exist to make sure that men are feminine, which ultimately forces into not being masculine.
on the idea “‘Masculinity does not exist except in contrast with ‘femininity’ (68). Putting it all together would get fag discourse only exist men as masculinity and masculinity only exist to make sure that men are feminine, which ultimately forces into not being masculine.