{"id":61894,"date":"2014-03-08T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=61894"},"modified":"2017-09-17T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:34:51","slug":"femininity-feared-and-reviled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/03\/08\/femininity-feared-and-reviled\/","title":{"rendered":"Femininity: Feared and Reviled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/111.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61898\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/111-500x117.jpg\" alt=\"11\" width=\"500\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/111-500x117.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/111.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The paradox: masculinity is strength, power, and dominance&#8230; but femininity is terrifying. Gender rules insist that men must avoid association with the feminine at all costs because, if they do not, they are weak. \u00a0They are pussies, bitches, women, girls. Femininity is weakness and yet, oddly, it has the power to strip men of their manliness. \u00a0It is as if, as sociologist Gwen Sharp <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/21\/policing-masculinity-in-slim-jims-spice-loss-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once put it<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cmasculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Behold the best example of this phenomenon ever:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1Gst1-iDQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear. \u00a0The reason he&#8217;s afraid of femininity is because it&#8217;s reviled. \u00a0It makes you a woman, which makes you worthless. \u00a0Which is fine for the ladies, but dudes are advised to avoid personal denigration if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Summer&#8217;s Eve, you make my job easy.<\/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>The paradox: masculinity is strength, power, and dominance&#8230; but femininity is terrifying. Gender rules insist that men must avoid association with the feminine at all costs because, if they do not, they are weak. \u00a0They are pussies, bitches, women, girls. Femininity is weakness and yet, oddly, it has the power to strip men of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":61899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,23678,2096,2087,2098,23703,283],"class_list":["post-61894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-androcentrism","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-marketing","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/121.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61894","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=61894"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71644,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61894\/revisions\/71644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}