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HYBRID Masculinities- Bridges and Pascoe
“Hybrid Masculinities” refers to the selective incorporation of elements of identity typically associated with various marginalized and subordinated masculinities AND at times, femininities” into privileged men’s gender performances and identities.
DO THESE POINT TO A NEW, LIBERATING DIRECTION?
These transformations include assimilation of bits and pieces of gay, Black, and feminine into masculine performances.
Authors suggest that “hybrid masculinities work in ways that not only reproduce contemporary systems of gendered, raced, and sexual inequalities but also obscure this process as it is happening” (205)
SOME scholars think these are forms of more inclusive masculinity, but Messner argues that these are styles of masculinity rather than significant changes to the institutions of power that men still enjoy. (206). THIS HAS BEEN MORE STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE: HAS NOT CONTRIBUTED TO WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION.
NEW GENDERED PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES OFTEN WORK IN WAYS THAT EITHER PRODUCE NEW FORMS OF INEQUALITY OR CONCEAL EXISTING INEQUALITIES IN NEW WAYS.
Hybrid masculinities among white men is EVIDENCE OF THE FLEXIBILITY OF IDENTITY AFFORDED TO PRIVILEGED GROUPS
MEN OF COLOR, WORKING CLASS MEN, IMMIGRANT MEN, ARE OFTEN (IN)DIRECTLY CAST AS THE POSSESSORS OF REGRESSIVE MASCULINITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THESE EMERGENT MASCULINITIES.
HYBRID MASCULNITIES STRATEGICALLY BORROW FROM “OTHERS” IN WAYS THAT REFRAME THEMSELVES AS PART OF SUBORDINATED GROUPS, WHICH FURTHER MASKS SOCIAL INEQUALITY:
Men’s appropriation of gay culture to score women
Racialized strategic borrowing: white men adopting Black hip hop culture: STUDIES OF HIP HOP FANS
“Fag” discourse in public schools and youth culture (Pascoe)
Hybrid masculinities demonstrate the flexibility of patriarchy.
