{"id":28269,"date":"2010-11-04T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=28269"},"modified":"2013-12-02T23:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:29:36","slug":"homophobia-as-gender-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/04\/homophobia-as-gender-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophobia as Gender Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520252301\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dude, You&#8217;re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School<\/em><\/a> C.J. Pascoe explains that taunts of &#8220;fag&#8221; aren&#8217;t really about homosexuality at all, but instead about policing the boundaries of masculinity:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X_nqYnjfe_8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For a pretty scary example, see our recent post in which <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/26\/yankee-fans-verbally-assault-teenage-red-sox-fans-with-homophobic-taunts\/\" target=\"_self\">Yankees fans ganged up on two teenage Red Sox fans using homophobic language<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dude, You&#8217;re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School C.J. Pascoe explains that taunts of &#8220;fag&#8221; aren&#8217;t really about homosexuality at all, but instead about policing the boundaries of masculinity: For a pretty scary example, see our recent post in which Yankees fans ganged up on two teenage Red Sox fans using homophobic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,55,2087,54],"class_list":["post-28269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28269"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59597,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269\/revisions\/59597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}