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Phil 27

Lecture 6

10/12/11

  • Gender is learned behavior and governed by dominant idea.
  • The present is not identical to the past.
  • Gender is invisible, most of us are not aware. In comparison to issue of abortion
  • Media articulate the idea that men are being pressure to conform. They are violating ethics of great man.
  • Tensions in the family wage:
  • Men are required to enter a world where losing their visibility.
  • Becoming sissified
  • Problem with conformity
  • Loss of individuality
  • Standards of being a successful breadwinner are being raised:
  • Women are scapegoated
  • Presented in a way as shrews.
  • Because of the growth of mass market
  • 5 men who would have lived died in the past, now dies because of the demands of  the women at home.
  • Pressure on men when women wants more.
  • Every social system has pressure:
  • Male revolt: it invents new less restrictive ways of being a man. New meaning of masculinity.
  • Playboy, beats
  • The traditional rold oe men is base ->revolt creats new meaning as to what it means to be a man
  • New options of living without having their manhood question.
  • Playboy
  • Brilliant creation –
  • From the offset, Playboy loves women -> sexy, seductive, single, young
  • Hates women -> house wives, attached women
  • Belingered maile become the bible for them
  • Reclaimed the indoors for sexual.
  • Playboy is a way where men can have sex with anyone without having to take repsonisbilty, and tie into marriage or procreativty.
  • Cut the link between having sex for fun and procreation.
  • Sex not use for procreation
  • Disconnects from breadwinner mentality.
  • Message of playboy:
  • Don’t become a slave to your wife and family.
  • It opens up to consumer good to men.
  • Men can spend their money on themselves rather than family.
  • Stuff made four men
  • Men are getting sexually excited and losing their duty to their family.
  • Divorce is increasing over the years because if men does not feel attracted to their wife anymore, they can easily divorce.
  • MAIN MESSAGE: You do not need to be a husband or bread winner to be a man.
  • Beats:
  • Message: they represented a more radical rejection of the bread winner.
  • They reject the white collar as well as duty of male in family.
  • Reject life long process of work, produce, and consume.
  • Get a woman to support male.
  • Beat represents uncivil, unwilling to do work of society, sissy, who cant live for anything but an immediate desire.
  • A lot of what they stand for becomes mainstream. The counter culture takes up themes of beats and make it into a new culture
  • Culture that rejects of the world of a new way of life compared to the tradition.
  • You don’t need to commit to any person.
  • Beats were hated but they speak to the barbairans ( straight guys)
  • Medical opinon,
  • The traditional breadwinner may be sprinting to an early death.  
  • The revels (playboy, beats) traditional breadwinner is killing himself.
  • Psychological opinion
  • A new psych of human growth
  • The fully actualize man is forever growing, experiencing new things.
  • He has peak experiences, he experiences joy and more joy, constantly improving and challaneging himself to a psychological growth
  • Self actualization
  • Did not say that traditional breadwinner is not a killer of psychological growth.
  • New psychology of human growth: Capture counter culture: “hey do your own thing, find yourself, don’t do what other people do”

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