Phil 27 - Abortion

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”