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1. The philosopher Judith Butler once said in her book Gender Trouble that “Gender is so taken for granted at the same time that it is violently policed.” By this she means that femininity and masculinity are so normalized, they seem so “natural,” yet people continue to police and discipline anyone who disrupts these norms. C.J. Pasco writes in our reading that the “fag” epithet is one aspect of gender policing, in which boys point out and ridicule others who fail at masculinity, heterosexual prowess, or strength.

So these various ways of calling or labeling each other as fag is a way to police each other’s masculinity. She says it is less about homophobia than about proving masculinity. What other ways do people police masculinity?

2. Girls who transgressed gender norms experienced high school in a different way from boys. Pascoe posits that, because masculinity is highly valued in the high school context, girls enacting masculinity often experienced an upgrade in status. A group of masculine, athletic girls, whom Pascoe titles "the basketball girls," best exemplify this phenomenon. Outsiders often characterized the basketball girls as funny, charismatic tomboys. These masculine girls were popular, despite the fact that some were lesbians or had ambiguous sexual identities. So do you think femininity is policed in the same way as masculinity? For example, the word Dyke is used in Mean Girls; do you think this is policing femininity? Explain.