The Issue of Men

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Issue 69, June 2014

BROAD A Feminist & Social Justice Magazine

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Dear BROAD people, On behalf of this year’s team, I would like to thank you all for your continued readership, support, and dedication to feminism and social justice. We poured our hearts into this magazine, and have loved creating content, making new connections, and collaborating with all of our wonderful contributors, columnists, and visiting editors.

While we are sad to step down from our current positions, we all plan on continuing on as contributors, columnists, or even consulting editors. This year has been an incredibly valuable ex perience for us, and we thank you for being a part of it.

That being said, I am very excited to welcome on our new team for the 2014-2015 year. After a long process of interviews, applications, and exercises, I am delighted to announce that our new team is going to triple in size, in order to facilitate better organization, more content, and to bring in even more perspectives to this magazine.

And with that, I leave you with the last issue for the 2013-2014 team, The Issue of Men. As always, we hope you enjoy it, and we encourage you to keep an eye out for the next issue, with a brand new team!

Stay strong, Katie Klingel BROAD Editor In-Chief

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Visiting Editor

Miguel Macias

Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Coordinator

During my time working in the field of higher education I have become very invested in working with issues of gender performance, particularly the ways men perform masculinity. These interests have led me to reflect on the ways I myself performed and continue to perform masculinity and gender. Indeed, it is difficult to reflect exclusively or solely on these performances in isolation, as I have found that other covalent issues often complicate these performances: race, ethnicity, class, among others. Still, my academic and professional trajectory has opened byways for understanding how my identity and the many intersecting variables that constitute it have afforded me a wealth of privileges growing up and today. I find it crucial to constantly acknowledge and reflect upon the privileges afforded by a masculine and cisgender performance.

Broad Magazine is an invaluable contribution for building spaces of critical analysis about the ways masculinity and gender are constitutive of power relations in our society. Narrative is a powerful tool for reflection but also essential for envisioning new possibilities. Current events in the media have recently underscored the importance of efforts such as these, and the necessity for youth to utilize the space of the university as an avenue for articulating new gender and masculine expressions. I am hopeful that we will continue holding valuable conversations about these issues within the university.

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My name is Miguel Macias, and I am the coordinator for LGBTQ and men’s initiatives at the Department of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. Originally from Washington State, I am the middle child in a Mexican-American family of seven. I earned a B.A. in Sociology and International Business from Washington State University, and completed a M.Ed. in Student Development Administration from Seattle University.

A feminist is a person who answers “yes” to the question, “Are women human?” Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. And it’s certainly not about trading personal liberty--abortion, divorce, sexual self-expression-for social protection as wives and mothers, as pro-life feminists propose. It’s about justice, fairness, and access to the

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range of human experience. It’s about women consulting their own well-being and being judged as individuals rather than as members of a class with one personality, one social function, one road to happiness. It’s about women having intrinsic value as persons rather than contingent value as a means to an end for others: fetuses, children, the “family,” men. ~ Katha Pollitt

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The Issue of Men Thank you for opening up our latest issue, The Issue of Men! A long-awaited read, we are excited to say that we brought in a bunch of first-time contibutors, expanding our BROAD community even further! Read on to learn more about male feminists, gendered teens, violence, definitions of masculinity, abuse, and female masculinity. Enjoy!

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Gaby Ortiz Flores

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I used to think that I was being paranoid for being scared that men were going to hurt me. Having this much fear that men will hurt me can’t possibly be normal. I’m surely just overreacting, I would tell myself. It must be a result of how my mother raised me. It wasn’t until the last few years that I realized that all women are scared that a man will try to hurt them at some point. I remember having a conversation with some friends over strategies for how to protect ourselves when the cable man comes over.

You know, just in case. I wish that there was no need for such conversations. I wish that I wasn’t afraid but I am.

I love men. I am also acutely aware of how small I am compared to the majority of men. I am painfully aware of how much physical strength they have compared to me. I aware of how society puts the onus on women to protect and defend themselves but divests men of any responsibility to not put a roofie in my drink or to not take advantage of me when I’m drunk or if he hits me I must have done something to deserve it. Do men get told to not put roofies into girls’ drinks? I ask this in earnest because I don’t know.

I know that as I was packing for college, my father started cutting out newspaper articles for me about sexual assaults and dating violence. “Be careful.

Stay alert. Watch your drink.” He would warn me.

One of my closest male friends once shared that he

would be ok with having a lesbian daughter but he would not want a gay son because he didn’t trust men and he would be in constant fear for his son in the same way he would fear for his hetersexual daughters. He also didn’t want hetersexual daughters for this very reason. This worried me considerably because in spite of the fact that I am scared of what men could do to me, I am partial to the #notallmen. Could men really be that bad?

Perhaps some but not all. There are men who know and respect the strength and power of women. These are men who, whether or not they think of themselves as feminists, define masculinity for themselves in a way that is not at the expense of women. These are men who do not buy into the myth that nice guys finish last but who value compassion and care for others. I don’t know what it’s like to be a man because I’m not one. I know that men have their challenges that are specific to their gender and that they struggle with what it means to be a man in a similar way that women struggle with what it means to be a woman given the cultural context we’re given. I know that there are good men.

This issue is dedicated to those men. Men like my dad who is one of the most openly affectionate men that I have ever met and who spent most of his life empowering his daughters (and scaring them with newspaper articles). My dad calls himself a feminist, a thing so rare in a Mexican man from his generation that I quite frankly can’t think of any others.

Men like my friend Miguel who leads The Men’s Project, a group of men dedicated to redefining masculinity for themselves as well as preventing violence against women. Men like the men from The Men’s Project who are passionate about growing and using their privileges and power to help and empower others.

- Gaby

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“Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations.”~ Sheila Jeffreys I’ve been thinking a great deal about the relationships between men and women, primarily in light of Elliot Rodgers’ murders. There’s been a great deal written about him, his videos, and his writings but those will not be addressed by me. It is interesting to note, however, the various reactions that folks have regarding why he did what he did. In particular the Yesallwomen and notallmen hashtags have been interesting to follow and have brought up thoughts I normally don’t address because they are too scary to think about for too long. Margaret Atwood said it best “Men [hetersexual cisgendered men] are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” I would add rape to that as well. I would also add that women who are transitioning (or have transitioned) fear this as well. It doesn’t matter if your sex or sex at birth is male. If you are a woman, you fear violence at the hands of men.

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What Masculinity Means to Me Eric Grisham

“Be a man.”

Before I tried to define what it meant to be a man, I used to be afraid of phrase, “be a man.” It meant that I wasn’t good enough, I wasn’t fitting in, or I wasn’t living up to the expectations of others. Looking back, I realized that insecurities were rooted in fear.

Fear of failure, fear of embarrassment, fear of being different. By evaluating why I was afraid, I redefined my personal definition of manhood.

Admittedly, when I was asked to write this article, I was somewhat at a loss for words. I can talk about

As a member of The Men’s Project, I realized that the characteristics that I value in a man are often characteristics I value in people in general: caring, confident, intelligent, open-minded, etc. What once was a global and generalized idea of what a man should be, became a personal definition, catered to my own life experiences. To me, masculinity is my father, an intelligent and caring man who has worked and saved all his life to provide for his family. It is my friend Sebastián, who empathized with me in my time of need. It is me: caring, intelligent, and open-minded.

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What once was a global and generalized idea of what a man should be, became a personal definition, catered to my own life experiences.

As I have grown older, my definition of masculinity has become personal. My path to redefining my masculinity – and to discovering myself – began with a bad experience and a conversation with a friend. I was assaulted in 2012. I questioned my manhood and myself. I began searching for a way to turn a bad experience into a meaningful one. Turning to my friend Sebastián, I sought reassurance.

He suggested I apply to join the cohort of The Men’s Project, an organization under the umbrella of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Loyola University Chicago dedicated to redefining masculinity and addressing the crisis in masculinity in our young men today. As part of The Men’s Project, I had the opportunity to communicate with other like-minded men about issues in gender equality and masculinity. Together, we helped each other redefine what we thought it meant to be a man and discover what each of us valued important.

I believe masculinity is not something you can define for someone else. If we are to address the crisis in masculinity in our young men, we need to teach them that they can’t just watch a movie or read a book to uncover what it means to be a man.

Masculinity is something that must be realized. It’s something that has to be discovered. These young men need to evaluate what qualities and values are important to them in order to become men.

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qualities that I value in myself and how to stand up for others until the cows come home, but defining my brand of masculinity to others is slippery. For many, it’s easy to look at a picture of a model – stoic and sharp – and be tricked into thinking that the idea of masculinity presented to us in the media and the news is the portrait of what a man should be.

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It’s not masculine. It’s not male. It’s not virile for men to knock women around.

Violence against women is learned.

Each of us must examine and change the ways in which our own behaviour might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence.

I promise to do so, and to invite other men and allies to do the same.

People won’t listen to you or take you seriously unless you’re an old white man, and since I’m an old white man I’m going to use that to help the people who need it.

It’s men who have to learn the different behavior and its men - as someone said very, very forcefully on Friday morning - in the same way that it was white men confronting white men in issues of civil rights in the United States, it needs to be men confronting men in the same way, on the issues of domestic violence.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact men.

It’s in our hands to stop violence towards women.

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Questions: How is violence connected with codes of masculinity?

We often focus so much on how male-perpetrated violence affects women, why do you think it is important to talk about how it affects men?

Do you feel Bill Pozzobon’s argument could apply to other “codes” (cultural, religious, societal, etc) and not just codes pertaining to gender?

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The Things I EXPERIENCE Because of Masculinity in My LIFE Mario Rodriguez

As a first time BROAD Magazine contributor, it is important to note that masculinity is a broad topic that society feels they need to streamline. There seems to be a cookie cutter image or look for what defines a male, but I am writing this piece to share

my experiences and what I have witnessed so that it can help me to educate others. Masculinity is in the eye of the person not what society makes you think it is.

For a first generation, able-bodied, Latino, Mexican-American, who is part of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer community, the definition of masculinity takes a new definition depending on the identity or the atmosphere I am in.

It is sad to say that a man can never just be an hombre or man. From the way that one stands or poses, to the way that one speaks (the pitch or tone of his voice), how a man addresses people of the same sex or opposite sex, to the things a man can wear, the colors he chooses and lastly how he can display affection... these are what make it difficult to not be conscious of self and actions as a man.

This piece is about what I have witnessed that helps me shape my masculinity through the identities I feel are more prominent to my daily personal and professional life for the past 30 years.

household. From the family parties where all the men gather around the grill for the “carne asada” while drinking a Corona or Model and the women were taking care of the kids or serving my male relatives in the process. I also remember hearing that women, or my sister, were not supposed to be out late or that there is always a safety issue for women to go out or go alone. “Machismo”, as defined

by Webster dictionary as, “a strong or exaggerated sense of power or the right to dominate”, was present at home but was not tolerated. For the most part, because of financial reasons, my mother was a contributor equal to my father, which began to take shape as we grew older and my mom went back into the workforce. In addition to my father being laid of his 26-year job, I was able to see how the family dynamic changes as my mom became the provider.

As an able-bodied male, I was expected to take

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As an able-bodied male, I was expected to take care of my younger sister or cousins even if the ladies looked more intimidating, were smarter than me, or acted tougher than I did.

As the eldest in a traditional Mexican family and a Latino male, I learned from a young age that there were roles that men and women take in the family

care of my younger sister or cousins even if the ladies looked more intimidating, were smarter than me or acted tougher than I did. As a male, I learned to always be a gentleman, open the door for females, and walk on the sidewalk.

As a Mexican-American Latino I was always told to follow rules, or that dads are always head of the household and the male is always the provider for the family. The man needs to help contribute to the family household. I can help with chores or was assigned the “manly ones”. Around the house I am supposed to cut the grass, and learn how to fix a car, carry all the heavy stuff or move heavy furniture because a female “cannot”/”should not” carry that. In High School, many of my male Mexican-American friends also had to work to provide for their families.

They were not always allowed to get involved like me

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As a first generation Latino in college, masculinity was a big deal for me as I entered a private university called the University of La Verne in Southern California (ULV). ULV is a liberal arts college comprised of a large Hispanic community in which 60% identified as female. While attending I learned what it was like for the first time to be a minority because of my gender when it came time for class discussions. I experienced new view points from a female perspective, understood and was introduced to feminism, took a class that talked about the gender biased glass ceiling and the lack of other male involvement on campus.

in sports or clubs, or focus on school as much as I did.

Rather, they could participate in a sport if they had time outside of helping the family?

man, it is okay too. Do not ask questions that will not make the male or female feel bad about themselves just let them be.

As a gay male, I was always told by friends to be masculine or not be to “girly”. What did it mean to be girly to them? How was that defined? When I was dating a man, I dealt with the constant asking of “Are you masculine or feminine?” Or when people see two men together they ask the “million dollar question” which

To be masculine to me means to be able to be the male that I want to be without worry that “they” society might not see me as a man for wearing pink, having mannerism or make me manly because I watch or play sports. We all have passions and hobbies, and try to cultivate our own fashion style.

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My viewpoints on masculinity are that first we all deserve to be treated with respect and fairness regarldess of what your viewpoints on masculinity are. Ask yourself: “why do I need to know how masculine they are?” one of you is the man and woman? So in other words what role do you play in the relationship? If you go out to a bar or date or go to a pride event what can you wear? As if there is no relationship where both can be the masculine?.

Online dating or social applications are infamous for the” I am a masculine male looking for masculine male” but what makes you so “masculine”? I think this is a strong enough question and point. But go further with what that may mean, to want something masculine, is it taking charge, being protected?

ALL of these incidents in my life over these past years have helped me shape my very own viewpoints and perspectives of masculinity that help me cultivate my thoughts and way of thinking as I navigate my personal or professional career in my new home of downtown Chicago and working for a university that foster a safe, welcoming and inclusive community.

My viewpoints on masculinity are that first we all deserve to be treated with respect and fairness regardless of what your viewpoints of masculinity are. Ask yourself: “why do I need to know how masculine they are? If she is a masculine lesbian it is okay?” If the man at the register has nail polish but is dressed like a

As a gay Latino Male, I do not need to wear a hat or sportswear to feel manly. I can wear the color I feel is going to represent me for the day. We can have feelingings and think with our brains and heart not just all about sex. If I am with a male, do not assume a role but rather be happy that the person is with someone who loved and cares for the person. This is the 21st century where same sex marriage, being gay is okay and display of affection is involved. To be inclusive in your language do not assume that because I am a male I am straight but ask me if I have a partner, a significant other, “a boo” or if I am in a relationship.

Society tells us that girls wear pink and boys wear blue, which is not true anymore. I can guide others to be comfortable, stand up for men and women, encourage others to challenge the status quo about masculinity but stop judging the spectrum of masculinity and embrace the whole person for who they fully are.

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Feminist Fires Dr. Michael Kimmel, Sociologist Major Works:

- Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era (2014)

- Manhood in America: A Cultural History (2012)

- The Gendered Society (2011)

- Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008)

- Changing Men: New Directions in the Study of Men and Masculinity (1996)

- Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the U.S. (1992) Inspires:

Kimmel, amongst others, is a leading individual in the academic field of men’s studies.

He has inspired the growing field of masculinity and men’s studies in the academic arena and the awareness to pro-feminist men. One such example of his large involvement in this field is that, in 1992-1993, he founded the journal Masculinities, a precursor to the academic journal Men and Masculinities, which he was editor of.

Importance to Social Justice:

Kimmel is the first man to deliver the International Women’s Day lecture at the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the European Space Agency. Why is this significant to social justice? It is because Kimmel’s pursuit in spreading the knowledge on a gendered society for both men and women, and his advocacy for pro-feminism are significant to achieving equality, or something close to that, between male-identified individuals and female-identified individuals. Through his writing and teaching he attempts to show that sexism goes both ways and gendered society affects everyone. As Kimmel concluded in a recent article for The Huffington Post, “If we want to help women achieve greater equality, we have to engage men.” * * To read more of Kimmel’s article in The Huffington Post, go to the following link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kimmel/how-can-we-help-women-by-helpingmen_b_4611523.html

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Personal Life:

Kimmel earned a B.A. from Vassar College in 1972, an M.A. from Brown University in 1974, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. Being a visiting professor at the latter university from 1992 to 1994, he was voted “Best Professor” during the academic year of 1992-1993 by The Daily Californian. He is married to Amy Aronson, a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University, who he has also written a book with, titled Sociology Now. Since 1987, Kimmel has been a professor, now Distinguished professor, of Sociology and Gender Studies, at Stony Brook University in New York City.

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1. Sweet--Tullycraft Tullycraft is a band full of originators of the sad nasal-singing boy genre. Out of the Pacific Northwest in the mid-1990s, Tullycraft sings lots of songs about crushes. This song is about a boy who doesn’t know how to tell his crush that he thinks said crush is sweet and that he has fun with crush and likes holding hands with crush.

2. Come Saturday--The Pains of Being Pure at Heart I’ll admit that I refused to listen to this band for a really long time because I hated their name so much (this is also coming from the girl who when a boy told her he liked My Bloody Valentine that it was the worst name she ever heard. I have a knack for judging bands wrongly based on their names). But once I gave them a chance, I loved ‘em. “Come Saturday” has all the fuzzy pop vibes a gal like me could ask for plus its about cuddling up with yr lover instead of going to a party which is way cool.

3. I’m Done Running From You--Mikal Cronin Mikal Cronin is my celebrity crush. He has the long flowy yet greasy hair and nice boy face that I just want to moon over while he serenades me on uke. One day he will realize that he is done runnin from me and we will hang out and hold hands and then we can play tambourine together and wear tie dye. Such listenable garagey pop.

4. At the Hop--Devendra Banhart One of my first musical loves. Like to the point where I was personally sad when he started dating Natalie Portman. Thank goodness it didn’t last. This song is one of Devendra’s simplest and most touching, to me. Light on the self-important mystical imagery and heavy on guitar strumming and really sweet and lyrics like “cook me in your breakfast/put me on your plate/ cuz you know i taste great.” I’m sure this has gone on at least one mix I’ve made for a crush.

5. For You--Rocky Erikson and the Aliens You might know Roky Erikson as the LSD-wacked out dude from the 13th Floor Elevators with crazy eyes or from the documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me where he putters around his Austin apartment with a million tvs and radios blaring static because it’s the only way he can get some peace of mind. What you might

not know is that he is a really great musician and this song is unlike some of his other psychedelic sonic experimentations. “For You” just relies on Erikson’s scratchy voice and some finger picking to sing about how devoted he is to the person he loves and it’ll slap your heartstrings like wow.

6. Tennessee--Silver Jews David Berman (no relation to me or to Kip Berman of Pains of Being Pure at Heart unfortunately) is not only a musician but a poet and his wordplay really comes out in this song. Spare instrumentation and Berman’s voice is flat and scratchy. He’s not the world’s greatest singer but that only makes me like him more, actually. Folksy speak-singing with wordy lyrics, an ode both to Tennessee and the woman Berman loves and who sings with him as a duet. Part of the chorus goes “cuz you’re the only ten-I-see.” Get it?

Like also “Tennessee?”

7. Why Should I Live if I Don’t Fit--The Beets Queens-based messy jangly boy band, The Beets are askin the real questions. But you might not be able to hear ‘em underneath the fuzz and also the remarkably bad production quality. The aesthetic is aggressively DIY and these are the kinds of dirtbags who are probably really nice to their moms.

8. Golden Shower--The Boy Hairdressers Early twee/C86 band, The Boy Hairdressers are excelling in rainy day sensitive boy Brit pop. Think handwritten notes, metal lunch pails as purses, clunky Doc Marten Mary Jane shoes and having your crush over for a cup of tea. That is what this is.

9. Best Day--The Lemons Chicago’s own most crushworthy band playing polite and fun ice cream shop pop. Just about none of their songs crack the 2 minute mark and all of them are about being friends, having fun, eating treats, and other assorted citrus-based adventures. And there’s one about an elephant. This one is about having a really good day!

Nina Berman is a masters student in the English Department at Loyola. She loves all dogs everywhere, eating popcorn, fangirling about Virginia Woolf, and the moon. She also goes by Penny Dreadful and hosts The Clambake: songs by ladies women and grrrrls every Thursday from 4-6pm on WLUW (wluw.org or 88.7fm)

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For this month’s issue, I decided to pay tribute to all the tender and sensitive bois out there making music.

Boys have feelings too. Lots of them. Here are some of them.

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Expressions in poetry via street literature style

For colored boys who speak softly, I would build a stage on top of the world Give them a microphone and let them free flow Because they too have something to say And this is more than rainbows coloring our face This is broken spirits speaking for a better day So in the tenderness of our words we carry blades To cut ourselves free from gender roles Build a life free from social norms Redefine humanity and sexuality through our own terms…

For colored boys who speak softly I would sacrifice my tongue Make an offering to the Gods Pray to them to wash my mouth clean ‘Cause boys like us Should never taste cum And men should never lie with men Because this is a crime punishable by death And it is in this very same dark silence that many of us rest Left bruised and dead For those who speak softly I would crucify myself like Christ Let my blood purify and sanctify these words Create a doctrine and go knocking door to door Letting the people know That the messiahs are here

That we are all messengers Although, we embody the word queer That we are a reminder Of how colonization has destroyed NUESTRA CULTURA They Burned our Villages, NUESTROS PUEBLOS Implemented Homophobia, Sexism and Machismo En las cabezas de nuestros abuelos Brain washed our ancestors into believing That boys like us are a manifestation of the devil For colored boys who speak softly I will remind the world That Centuries ago We were Shamans and Healers Gifted warriors Two-Spirited People Highly respected by villagers And now we’ve become Nothing more than FAGS and QUEERS Making ourselves believe That capitalism will solve our issues For colored boys I will clothe and Cover Every naked body Used to represent our community

For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly Yosimar Reyes

For those who speak softly I will recognize That there is more than one wound to heal More than one struggle that we feel But this ignorance Blocks us from seeing the bigger picture The greater evil And these same issues Transcend Borders Because Brothers and sisters In Oaxaca In Chiapas In the Philippines In Iraq Are resisting This very same system For those who speak softly I would slit my throat Let this truth be proof Of my loyalty Make human dignity a priority Because all of us are part of a deeper history We are NOT what you call “immigrants”

We are People who live in poverty We fail to assimilate And continue To fight racist policies For colored boys I will remind my people Que somos diferente Que Somos gente Con cultura Con orgullo Con poder We are people and with the people we stand Breaking borders and stereotypes Fighting Systems Like the one that exploited our hands For colored boys who speak softly I will die in silence knowing That the beauty in our color Stands defiant to a racist, sexist, and homophobic GOVERNMENT!

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Because not all of us were taken into consideration When they developed our identity Telling us we should act like this Exploit our sexuality Rather than embrace our divinity

Julia DeLuca

Manga Addict Analyzing Anime and Manga Through a Gendered Lense

Ouran High School Host Club

In honor of this month’s issue on Masculinities, I will be reviewing one of the most popular mangas ever conceived: Ouran High School Host Club. Ouran, from mangaka Bisco Hatori, is about the (mis) adventures of high school student Haruhi Fujioka and the fellow students she befriends: Tamaki Suoh, Kyoya Ohtori, Hikaru and Kaoru Hitaachin, Takashi “Mori” Morinozuka, and Mitskuni “Hani” Haninozuka. This manga series, a high school comedy, is one of the most well known and popular manga series.

It is not only a questions gender norms, but it also satirizes the stereotypes and clichés one would find in a teen centered story, particularly one set in high school: the conflicts of high class society, obsession with the opposing gender, materialism/superficiality, and other cliches.

Synoposis: The story focuses on the adventures of protagonist Haruhi Fujioka. Haruhi, a high school student, had been accepted to the elite private school Ouran Academy, which only the privileged 1% of Japanese society are able to attend thanks to a generous scholarship. Haruhi, while looking for a quiet place to study, and comes upon a vacant music room. After opening the door, Haruhi meets the founders and members of Ouran Academy’s “Host Club”, six of the school’s most wealthy and most handsome young men. The club consists of the following members: Club President Tamaki Suoh, Vice President Kyoya Ohtori, and fellow members Mitsuki “Hani” Haninozuka, his cousin/bodyguard Takashi “Mori” Morinozuka, and twins Hikaru and Kaoru Hitaachin.

After accidentally knocking over a 8 million yen vase (close to $80,000 in US currency), Haruhi is forced to work for the Host Club in order to pay off the debt: first as an errand runner, then is promoted to Host when the members see potential in the appearance.

The purpose of the Host Club is to entertain the female student population at Ouran Academy by acting out clichés of ideal men from the shoujo genre: the “Prince” (Tamaki), the “Cool Type” (Kyoya), the “Wild Type” (Mori), the “Lolita” (Hani), or “Mischevious/Devil” (Hikaru/Kaoru). The “Princely Type” is the one who provides flowery and exaggerated compliments to the target, like “I offer you my undying love, my princess”, which Tamaki is perfect for as he is the most handsome and the most charming of the hosts. The “Cool Type” is mysterious and aloof, which fits Kyoya’s character perfectly. The “Lolita” is the Host which has childlike qualities while still being legal, which Hani utilizies: he is the oldest of the hosts, but can pass as a grade schooler so women can fawn over him without guilt. His cousin Mori is the “Wild Host”, as he acts purely on raw instinct. Other than that, his other quality is that he rarely speaks, adding a level of mystery to his personality. Finally, we have the “Mischevious” Hosts, who like to trick and deceive others. Hikaru and Kaoru fill this quality perfectly as they like to play mind games with people, including their “Twincest” act and having girls fawn over the forbidden romantic love they have for each other (how much of this love is an act and is real is up for debate). Haruhi is named the “Natural” type, as there are no clichés or angles used: just uses regular everyday conversations which catches one’s attention. However, the Host Club later stumbles on a secret: Haruhi is really a girl who they thought was a boy (short hair, never acted particularly feminine or masculine)! This discovery becomes a catalyst of all sorts of comedic adventures for Haruhi and the Host Club: satirizing the clichés and stereotypes found in shoujo manga, and making fun of gender roles for men and women.

As the manga series continues, a storyline does develop. The reader learns more about Haruhi’s life, and more about the lives of the Host Club members: their interests, their past history, what drove them to start the Host Club, and their evolving relationships with each other, their families, and others in the community. They also learn to expand their horizons beyond their immediate environment and break out of their comfort zones in what they perceive to be the way life is supposed to be for them due to their upbringing.

Pros: Oh, where do I begin? Everything about this manga is great! First we have our heroine Haruhi Fujioka. Unlike most shoujo heroines, Haruhi is a young

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the next installment of Manga Addict! I am your reviewer, Julia DeLuca.

As this month’s issue of BROAD is focused on masculine identities, I thought over what manga would best fit this issue’s theme. Most mangas, especially shoujo (girl-oriented) manga, are already critiques of traditional gender roles. So it was difficult for me to find one which specifically dealt with gender norms, and the concept of masculinities and femininities. After some thinking, I realized I have the perfect one to review. It not only serves as a critique of gender norms, but also uses humor to make these critiques.

woman is both intelligent and has common sense.

Her focus in life is not to find a boyfriend, but to obtain a meaningful career and become an independent and self-sufficient person. When someone acts over the top like in a shoujo manga, instead of joining in she quips about how stupid that person is acting.

Haruhi is also great because her character breaks the clichés of the masculine and feminine qualities shoujo heroines have: she is not athletic or despises silk, lace or anything “feminine” like a tomboy, and at home handles all of the domestic chores in addition to her studies. However, she does not behave like a typical girl and often dresses more masculine (often wearing graphic tees and cargo shorts or jeans), doesn’t scream or cringe at the site of something “gross”, and is often the one who provides the most practical and nonsensical solution to a problem. She is overall a very likable character and someone every reader can both relate to, while aspiring to be like. The Hosts themselves are also entertaining-Tamaki is hilarious as he plays up the stereotypes of a princely character-charming, dramatic, and exaggerates the seriousness of a situation. All of the characters in the series are great: while they portray the clichés of the shoujo archetype, they also have considerable depths to their character to show they are more than a rehash of an overdone character type. And when the series starts to take on a storyline and become more dramatic, the humor still stays and rounds out the plot. The artwork of Ouran is also amazing.

Cons: As great as this series is, there are a few things I have problems with. There was one story arc in issue eight involving a trip to the beach. While I’m sure the intended message was “do not rush into dangerous situations without a plan”, it came off as “women should be protected, and not fight any battles”. There was also an issue later on a fake attempted rape-granted Haruhi did not act scared because she knew he would never do it, it still sent off bad vibes considering how serious the issue of rape and sexual assault is. Finally, there is the fact that a story arc was never finished, which leaves the overall fate of one of the characters unresolved.

Overall: Ouran High School Host Club is a great read. It is a great satire on the clichés of shoujo culture, teen romance, and “slice of life” high school story. The characters are appealing, the storyline is hilarious and also engaging, and the art is amazing. This is a comic series I would definitely recommend getting this series for one’s collection. The series is available

to read online, and one can purchase the series online through Amazon (the series has been out for several years, so the books should be cheap). Overall, this is great comic series and worth the investment.

By troubling the concept gender in its second and third waves, feminism attempts to address the problems both men and women experience as a result of fixed social ideas about sexual difference.

The colonial and postcolonial processes of settlement and migration have required equally the labour of both male and female. Culture has been dependent on the contributions of both women and men, sometimes in different areas of concentration.

The gender system has recurrently relegated the activities and lives of men and women into two ideologically separate spheres: that of the male to the public realm and that of the female to a private or domestic domain.

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We are not born men and women, but we do become our gender. We each take our biological script and shape it into something we define as our gender and our sexuality.

The study or understanding of gender should not be limited by the boundaries of the contemporary intellectual imagination. In the same way that our gendered identities are at some level fluid and malleable, so too should be the thought processes that allow us to explore the many dimensions of our gender and sexual identities.

- Patricia Mohammed

The Issue of Men

How to Make Feminism Work For YOU, Dude Jacob Miller

While certainly not an adequate sample of men the world over, the Ask Men sub forum provides an interesting peek into the psyche of Reddit.com’s user base, the largest portion of which is 18-29 year old males, according a Pew Research Center report. So on May 26th, when I noticed that two of the topics on the r/AskMen front page were titled, “What are your thoughts on the #YesAllWomen trend?” and “What are the most common casual forms of sexism you experience?”, I knew I was in for a treat.

In a breathtaking display of unawareness, the top voted comments in the former thread dismissed the women detailing experiences with male perpetrat-

the fact that you do not share in the struggles many others have been enduring their whole lives. Or rather, you are entering a new struggle that others have never been without. One of the most frustrating things about conversations about hyper-masculine expectations is that rarely do they own that they are one side of a coin that takes agency from women on the other side. The comment airing the grievance about men being expected to initiate dates and pay for dinner comes without the context that the since the industrial revolution, women’s work in the home came without pay, and then, once women entered the workforce, they were paid less. Keeping

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Men, as a generalized group, seem more willing than in the past to talk about how exhausting and unfulfilling it can be to pursure the examples of stoic, alpha-male masculinity.

In my experience opening dialogues with male friends and observing online discussion like the one above, men, as a generalized group, seem more willing than in the past to talk about how exhausting and unfulfilling it can be to pursue the examples of stoic, alpha-male masculinity modeled for us. At the same time, the support given to the vitriol directed towards the #yesallwomen phenomenon shows resistance to unabashedly feminist activities that persists even as men critique masculinity with ideas borrowed from feminism. My goal is to help create a path for men tired of patriarchal systems of oppression, ones that have negative consequences for not only women, to understanding what feminism has to offer them, as well as what it asks of them.

First, own your shit. Your experiences are valid, but you engender no support if you jump to the front of the line listing off your concerns without owning

a healthy critical eye to your own experience will help create a trusting relationship with those around you as you seek to build a community that fights for agency for men and women.

Second, work to understand the language. When feminists discuss whiteness and masculinity, it is not an indictment of every single person who shares those traits as bad people. Feminism is not about making you feel guilty for being a guy born to a middle class white family from the suburbs. In broader terms, feminists are analyzing the privileges and micro and macro level interactions that accompany whiteness and maleness when they use those terms.

That being said, sharing in those traits means you have work to do around internalized racism and sexism. The best metaphor I can think of comes from my religious childhood. Because of original sin, mankind will never fully be free of sin. Being born in America means for me, as a white man, I will never be free of the racism and sexism that my surroundings are steeped in. This does not make me a bad person, but if I know this about myself, it is imperative for me to keep a watchful eye, as well as listen to those on the other side of the coin from me.

Additionally, it is important to separate the word “prejudice”, from the words “racism” and “sex-

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ed violence as attention seeking, and the top voted comments in the latter semi-discussed the ways men are expected to conform to an ideal of strength and leadership. I bring this up not to take the r/AskMen community to task, but to illuminate the untenable way feminist thought has begun to seep into the gen-y male.

ism�. Prejudice is but a tiny sliver of what racism and sexism are. When feminists and anti-racists say that minorities and women cannot be racist or sexist, they do not exclude those groups from being prejudiced.

If a black person says they dislike white people, that is prejudiced. Racism, however, is used to describe the macro level economic, political, cultural, and geographic means with which minorities have been disempowered, as well as micro level interactions.

Sexism is used in a similar way. They have a broader definition than disliking someone for a phenotype, and it is important to understand that in feminist discussions.

Third, reap the rewards. It can seem a bit callous to introduce feminism to men as “What can it do for you?� However, many men seemed to have an un-

by feminism or other feminists. What is ironic is that I am more confident, stronger, more successful, and more attractive, all the markers of an American manhood, now that I am not chasing a fictitious version of myself created by the culture around me.

My final message to men reading this is that you are wanted. Feminism is for you. But you have to listen to those who built this, and continue to build this. When you have a negative gut reaction to something being shared around and validated by those different than you, sit down and ask yourself where that comes from.

The journey can be hard, but the rewards outweigh the costs, and I am not done with my journey, or even close to being done with it. I do not think it is something that can be completed, but I cannot imagine where I would be if I had chosen not to begin it.

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At its core, feminism is about providing everyone the opportunity to make decisions about their life. It has focused on women (and more slowly, disenfranchised minorities), because they faced the most barriers to having the power to make those decisions. However, men face barriers to contentment as well, and feminism has helped me work through them. I have higher self-esteem, mostly due to starting to win the fight against the need to live up to ridiculous standards of stoic, strong, American manhood. I do not have to deal with everything internally, and I have become far better about vocalizing my needs. I have rewarding platonic relationships with women thanks to the fact that I no longer require women to be sexually attracted to me to make me feel good about myself. My romantic and sexual relationships are far better now that I do not have to be a hyper-intuitive, all-knowing porn star that pays for everything and always initiates interaction. I do not feel emasculated in the slightest

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Queer Thoughts Turning Theory Into (Inter)Action

“Palo Alto” and the Representation of the Gendered Teen I recently watched the film adaptation of James Franco’s compilation of short stories, Palo Alto. Ultimately, the film (I cannot speak on the short stories themselves because I have yet to read them) is a drama centered on teenagers in Palo Alto, California, who are coping with

identity struggles by drinking, smoking, and cutting down trees amongst many things that are apart of their daily activities. However, I am not here to review the film, but to relate a specific aspect of the film to the subfield of queer masculinities. Using Queer Masculinities: A Critical

But why use Palo Alto? Why use a film about white middle to upper-class teenagers in high school who are “lost” and use their frustration about being lost by drinking and wreaking havoc at night? It is because, after my seeing it, the film stuck with me, despite its blandness and heterogeneity in topic. This topic has been done in many ways, not saying that it is necessarily bad. The only aspect that is new is the contemporary clothing styles that make the teenagers look like Urban Outfitters’ models in the film.

However, there is a particular scene that made me want to write on the teen’s experience, especially since my experiences with boys felt similar, double standards and all.

Returning to being in the movie theatre and watching the film, though, my friend and I could not help but notice the masculine roles the boys held with dominance against the girls. Sadly, these roles are very real outside of the film.

One girl named Emily was in the center of this metaphorical circle, surrounded by boys who used her for sexual activities, and then physically left her to deal with her own emotions about such intimate interactions. One of the boys, Fred, sexually interacts with Emily multiple times throughout the film, but, ultimately, when she tells him she does not want to be used that way, he becomes angry at her defiance. This ends badly, in him being hit over the head with a liquor bottle. Fred’s shock at the event leaves him to rethink his actions, the roles of boys and girls, and the power structures intertwined with these gender roles.

Shortly after this contemplative scene, the film ends and lights come on. The director Gia Coppola and one of the teenage actors Jack Kilmer come out for a Q&A. My friend asks Coppola during this post-film session about her interesting usage of Fred’s almost transformative scene in juxtaposition to the prevalent scenes of teenage gendered roles, particularly the sexual objectification of Emily. However, all Coppola says in response to it is that James Franco had that scene in one of his short stories, so she thought to include it because of its significance. Fine response, but not articulate enough to my friend and I. Come to think of it, it did not answer my friend’s question. For such an important discussion on boys’ education on their roles in society, specifically in sexual activities, Coppola gave it little importance in her answer.

Thus, I attempt to give it importance in my column. While this transformative scene for Fred was an obvious placement in relation to the other scenes of Emily being used for sexual favors, it is important to discuss Fred’s clarifying moment on seeing these gendered roles through the masculinities lens. Using Judith Butler’s discourse on masculinity and femininity as rooted in the heterosexual environment, Mac an Ghaill and Haywood in Queer Masculinities touch upon Debbie Epstein’s “Boyz’ own

stories: Masculinities and sexualities in schools” and her application of Butler to the educational system. In this latter environment, “gender and sexual identities in schools work through a framework of compulsory heterosexuality; sexist gender relations and heterosexuality are mutually informing” (70). The dual “Others” to these “normative heterosexual masculinities,” according to Epstein, are “girls/women” and “non-macho boys/men.” For boys specifically, though, Emma Renold states that these boys must then show their masculinities through “misogynistic and homophobic discourses, and heterosexual fantasies” to reaffirm their heterosexual status against the “Others.” These ways of showing are seen through such interactions as “symbolic sexual exchanges, public sexual innuendoes, sexual storytelling, and sexual objectification of girls” (70-1).

Hand motions of jerking off, sex acts with girls in school, and the “slut-shaming” of a girl as a result of it (a sexual double standard) are seen in Palo Alto, as well as in other representations of white heterosexual teenage lives in cinema. The main character April is the objectified pure virgin, whereas Emily becomes the objectified “ Other” or sexual deviant. Yet Fred’s character transforms past these gendered, hyper-sexualized boys and girls in the end of the film. This is what the director of the film could not articulate. Fred may have almost queered masculinity constructs. The reason why I say almost, though, is because of his being unable to fully detach from gender. A difficult thing to do in a society whose dominant teachings are built upon heterosexual, gendered, normative structure.

Despite this, Mac an Ghaill and Haywood suggest a way to queer masculinities. Using Christine Delphy’s discussion in “Rethinking sex and gender,” Mac an Ghaill and Haywood state, “The suggestion is that queering gender may actually result in the removal not only of the conceptual power of masculinity but also of gender itself as Delphy…suggests” (71). Fred may have had a glimpse of going outside the gendered roles by betting some sense “knocked” into him, yet gender still exists in the film and there seems to be no discussion outside of the heterosexual realm. The film may have made us ask this question of the boy/girl gender roles growing up, but it was brushed over by a two-minute Q&A response.

However, Queering Masculinities, coming out of this, has reified my belief in changing these culturally constructed roles. Based on the issues arising from these infectious sexually charged, gendered, and objectified teenage roles, education can shift these ideas by introducing masculinities studies from the start of a child’s education and growth. While Fred’s scene was an obvious fit for the film’s transformative climax, it may have proved to be an important discussion that can fit outside of film and into reality.

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Reader in Education, specifically the chapter “The Queer Masculinity: Schooling, Boys, and Identity Formation” by Máirtín Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood, I will discuss the representation of teenagers’ masculinities, specifically of one character named Fred, in Palo Alto.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It’s part of being a man. It’s the cultural construction of masculinity.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It’s frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what’s hidden in plain sight: It’s really a contest of meanings about manhood.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men’s violence. So that’s something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men’s violence.

Calling gender violence a women’s issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

- Jackson Katz

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In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title--We Real Cool; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth. Her subject is taboo: “this is a culture that does not love black males:” “they are not loved by white men, white women, black women, girls or boys. And especially, black men do not love themselves. How could they? How could they be expected to love, surrounded by so much envy, desire, and hate?”

Bell Hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader’s 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is now a Distinguished Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of more than seventeen books, including All About Love: New Visions; Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life.

She lives in New York City.

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The Issue of Men

Men and Their Spirituality Brian Anderson

Every time I’ve opened a book, the author gives their answer. Every time I read a research article, a scientific finding presents its case. Every time I asked a young man this, I would get some hemming and hawing, but I still get an answer. Like the young men, though, every time I looked inward to find this answer, I could not come to a concrete solution.

And after reading a book that has nothing to do with masculinity, I think I know why.

It is because our world is too complex, too diverse, and too variable. There are too many people who can express what masculinity means to them and thus bringing their answers down to a simple statement or even a top ten list begs the question of, “what about…?” This is because when we try to name masculinity, there is always an exception or an addendum to the example given; and while this can be frustrating, it always us to continue to explore the topic from multiple angles.

Recently, I decided to see how religious traditions impacted and formed college aged men’s understanding of masculinity. I conducted a series of focus groups with young men from various religious organizations at a private, Jesuit institution. Each focus group was comprised of a single religious identity (Evangelical Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Roman Catholicism), and there between three and five participants in each. I asked them two basic questions. “How do you define your spirituality/religion?” and “How do you define masculin-

ity?” There were subsidiary questions to this and some tangents along the way, but I wanted to know if there was a connection between the two. What I found was that religion, both its scripture and its culture, play a role in influencing men’s responses but that religious figures like Jesus Christ and Muhammad, for example, serve as a template for how men engage their masculinity.

For a majority of the college students, spirituality and religion were seen as different concepts. Spirituality was the inward journey, while religion was the outward community and structure that formed around a shared spirituality. Beyond these basic definitions, the specific phrasing was very much influenced on cultural and religious understandings of spirituality. For the Hindu students, spirituality was an “umbrella that encompassed all religions,” and religions were physical human manifestations of those spiritualties. For Muslims, Christians and Catholics, a common answer was that spirituality was the prayer life between you and a higher power while religions gave you a community and value system. For the Jewish students, spirituality wasn’t considered as important as the religious practices.

One student spoke to not thinking about his spiritual life until a crisis in high school where his parents forced him to visit a spiritual guide.

When asked how they define masculinity, many struggled. They did not struggle with understanding masculinity, but how best to relate it to me. Some gave glib answers to get the conversation started, like playing sports or wearing pants, but ultimately all chose to define masculinity by values. The values differed by culture and religious identity, but not one group described masculinity by actions or roles.

It was not until I probed deeper and asked about how they came to these current understanding did students use actions or roles to define the values they saw as important to masculinity. For example, the values of hard-working and dedication were present in a few of the groups. Within the Catholic group, a student referenced his grandfather who worked in a theatre. His work ethic and dedication to having professional looking set designs was something he instilled into his grandson that has manifested itself in attending college and maintaining a strong GPA. When I asked how their definitions of masculinity had changed over the years, many in each group laughed about their early images of masculinity as body-building tough guys who played sports and

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The topic of masculinity is not new but there has been an increase in the past few years in the media on men, violence, and our society. Many books have been written and studies developed to look at what this thing called masculinity is. While in graduate school, I was exposed to this by a few mentors and it sent me on a journey of self-discovery. Along this journey, I read a lot. I read those journal articles, books by sociologists, memoirs of men reflecting on their childhood, theologians who attempt to explain masculinity from a spiritual lens, and poets who look for the deeper connections that men have based upon Jungian archetypes. Also, I worked with lots of college aged men in various capacities. I’ve worked on anti-sexual violence campaigns, challenged men to define themselves through exercises that focused on defining masculinity, and used biblical stories to help see how Christian and Jewish scriptural literature defines how men should and should not behave.

Through all of these experiences, I kept bumping into the same dilemma. What is masculinity?

other stereotypical answers. But many grew out of these definitions during high school. One Muslim student talked about how the mass media and peer pressure influenced his early understanding of masculinity. He let himself fall into the common stereotypes until he got into his high school years. During high school he became closer to his faith and looked to the Prophet Muhammed as a means to understand his masculinity. The other Muslim students nodded and agreed with this concept. By living out the values of the prophet and copying how the prophet addressed situations in his life, they understood themselves to be men.

This trend was present in other focus groups. For Catholic students, they referenced Christ, but two of them specifically talked about different Saints in the Catholic church and how many of these saints allowed for strong examples model their lives. For the Evangelical Christian students, they spoke of Christ and the values displayed by Christ in the gospels. One specifically stated he tries “to model his life after that of Jesus instead of succumbing to the mass media concepts of sexuality and competition.” A couple of the Hindu men spoke about various deities not as specific role models, but as focal points in prayer to guide their reflections on issues of masculinity and other life dilemmas. Unlike the other groups, the Jewish students did not speak to any one person within their scripture.

For them, the conversation stayed focused upon the biological attributes and characteristics more than the social constructions of gender. They struggled a bit to speak from personal experiences and often spoke in generalities of how Jewish men understand their masculinity instead of their own lived experience.

Because of the trend in each group to define masculinity from religious scripture and cultural stories, I asked them if a different standard existed within their religious community compared to the general U.S. culture. One Hindu student specifically said he didn’t even know what a U.S. western culture definition would be because he didn’t care to know. He would rather compare himself to his own Hindu community.

For the Muslim men, they started answering the question but then paused to clarify if they were answering as Muslims or as Indian/Middle Eastern men. They saw the standards of masculinity entangled. They saw aspects coming from both. As mentioned earlier, looking to the Prophet was a source, but then there were greater cultural issues that predated Islam that would influence what it means to be a man for your family and within your community. One student described how he was humbled when he realized how much his

father did for those around him and how many people relied on his father’s guidance and support. This occurred in high school and greatly affected how he viewed masculinity and how he had to grow up to be a man like his father.

The Evangelical Christian men were clear that being a man meant emulating Christ. Thus, it is easier for Christian men to live out this form of masculinity but they recognized that non-Christian men could still hold the values of providing for family, living your life for others, and bringing about the greater glory of God. One student stated that “in society in general, the values of true masculinity are not valued as much.

Our culture is all me, me, me and working toward the top.”

While these responses did not take me by complete surprise, I was very intrigued by the influence of the religious background on their answers. This is a small sample and representative of one specific private, religious institution and may or may not vary in a different setting. But with this sample, religious figures were discussed much more than peers, parents, or their local faith leader (i.e. priest, imam, preacher, etc…). Which begs the question of how are these religious figures portrayed? What is it about Muhammad, Jesus Christ, and other men that instill in these young men a sense of being?

I do not want to discredit the real interactions within their lives, however. The student’s communities have shaped them and helped guide their understandings of spirituality and masculinity as well. Each focus group was unique in how they expressed themselves, but all shared the common theme of lived experiences shaping their masculinity. Whether it was through father-son relationships, summer camps, or high school friend groups, all grew out of the mindset of stereotypical masculinity to a mature adult perspective that focused them to look to these religious figures.

As I begin my next round of research and questioning, the two questions rise to the top. How will these religious figures impact our young men’s interaction with the world once they graduate and for those students who do not affiliate with a religious tradition, are their spiritual leaders that they look toward for guidance?

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Winter Jacket Sex Janna Klostermann

If I can have Mr. Sub and Janna, I’m bankin’

- A gentleman at a pub, 2009.

‘If you’re not married by the time you’re thirty, I’ll marry you,’ he offers. He really means, ‘If I don’t find anyone by the end of the night, I’ll fuck you.’ We’re buying drinks and playing house, and ‘I’ll marry you’ is just something guys like him say to cheer up girls like me, to take ownership of girls like me. Two drinks later, wielding power, I announce, ‘Aw, there’s my little hubby. If he’s not married by the time he’s thirty, I’m marryin’ him. I’m taking him home to Mom and Dad. I will do the taking.

I will do the touching.

I will do the violating.

I will take the violating from here,

Yet, that isn’t how the story unfolds. Instead, I keep my winter jacket on, I tell him to keep his goddamn hands off me, and I realize playing house, playing ‘you-may-now-kiss-the-bride,’ comes with divine consent to kiss, to touch, and to claim.

Janna Klostermann (@j_Klostermann) writes from Ottawa, ON. She holds a M.A. from Loyola University Chicago.

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• What are they saying about their product?

• Where do women fit in with these advertisements? What do these advertsiements say about women?

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Over the Rainbow Exploring a rich and diverse q-munity

The Obsession with Gay, White, Male Masculinity

To be honest, I’ve recently ventured into the world of online dating.

To be blunt, it’s not perfect – the gender options are limited, the sexuality options are even more limited, and the ‘match’ questions are really weird things about peanut butter and how to do complex algebra.

More interesting though, are the awkward statements that people will list in their profiles. Below is an excerpt of just a few – since this issue is on masculinity, I’ve picked the ones below intentionally. To be honest, though, this is far from an accurate representation of the weird, uncomfortable ways ‘isms’ have been showing up on my matches feed: “Masculine guys only.”

“Please be straight acting.”

“No femmes.”

“No twinks.”

“No flamboyant guys. Sorry, just a preference.”

“Can’t stand queens – please don’t bother messaging me.”

“Not into transdudes. Sorry.”

In the wake of the recent tragedy at UCSB, and the media portrayal that the suspect was an isolated, lonely individual who needed professional help, I found myself wondering how the strong hatred towards women extended into the LGBTQI community (because it does – don’t kid yourselves).

I forget where I read the article, but there was a piece recently published on how predominantly White, gay men exhibit blatant misogyny over women’s’ bodies, constantly calling close friends ‘bitches’ and ‘cunts’ – I remember once dating a cis guy whose computer password for all of his files was ‘cunt.’ I cringed when he told me, and he laughed that I found it not okay – he told me I was ‘way too sensitive.’

I also found myself reflecting on a lot of the words that a lot of White cis gay men use when talking to each other – while there is a case for the reclamation of language that I fully support, is reclaiming words that are used to demean women the place of folks that still have an abundance of male privilege?

If you want a snapshot of this, check out [White Cis] Boystown on any given weekend – I guarantee you’ll

see it before the night ends.

While I’ve been guilty and am still tempted from time to time to describe someone as ‘bitchy’ or talk about how I’ve been told I sometimes have ‘resting bitch face,’ isn’t it time to acknowledge that our use of these words, concepts, and insults continue to perpetuate the cycle of misogyny?

I found myself reading through the #YesAllWomen hashtag on twitter, and realizing that the misogyny that exists in the LGBTQI community not only shows up in our leadership, but how we treat one another – by calling each other ‘bitches’ and ‘sluts’ and ‘whores,’ we’re sending a message that it’s okay to use those words – which sounds dangerously close to several of the things that the suspect from the UCSB tragedy broadcasted on his youtube channel.

I think my biggest question for us is that are those things we list on our dating profiles really preferences, or are they our internalized obsession with misogynistic viewpoints and the socialized ideals of masculinity?

As someone who identifies as a gender variant/gender creative man, I even find myself making sure to look as masculine as possible on a first date – but why?

Because: even though we may be in the broader LGBTQI spectrum and well-versed in some of the oppressive forces of our society, the same societal forces that motivate others to be blatant perpetrators of gender based violence influence how we present ourselves to the world and how we receive the rest of the folks under our community’s rainbow umbrella.

P.S. – Please don’t get me started on the concept of ‘Fag Hag.’

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TW: homophobic language, transphobic language, sexist language, gender based slurs

The main problem for women trying to emulate male sexuality is that as a ruling-class sexuality, it is constructed around the fact that they have a subordinate class on whom to act sexually. Women are that subordinate class. The elements that constitute male sexuality depend upon the possession of ruling-class status such as objectification, aggression, and the separation of sex from loving emotion

The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power‌ Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

Men’s sexual freedom has depended, and still does to a large extent, upon their ownership of women’s bodies Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

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Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.

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El Rey Yosimar Reyes

He comes home drunk. Walks into the house shouting. “¡Yo soy el jefe aquí!” the only way a man with no power shouts. His old body sways back and forth but we ignore him and stare angrily at the television screen. We are too use to this. We know him all too well to give into his rage when he comes home like this. He reeks of urine and there is no way to escape it since after all we share the living room because we are too poor to rent an apartment all to ourselves.

Abuelita’s small body gets up and walks him to the bathroom. I am too mad to care what happens to this man.

Sometimes when he turns into this monster I think I hate him. I think I hate her for staying for so long. I hate that we were born Mexican, grew up to believe that drunken men with no real power other than the violence of their fists and words are people we should honor.

I hate that as all this happening in my house we still turn on the television screen to la novela where main plot is of a woman fighting for man to love her. Sometimes I wish we didn’t need men to validate us. Wish we were not born into a culture were respect and masculinity are synonymous with misogyny.

She begins to take off his clothes. I don’t think she loves him anymore. I think all this is tradition. In my head I think of all the years in which she has had to protect this man, I think of all the years she has had to make peace with the burden of marrying an alcoholic. My poor viejita. I know she has heart the size of heaven to love the demon that is my grandfather.

“Abuelita, déjalo. Yo lo voy a bañar.”

“No mijo, tu nada mas ve y aprende que esto lo que ves no es ser hombre.”

I take my Abuelo’s hand. His naked body is fragile and his skin has seen more life than I ever will. This old man who seldom speaks is the only man I have know to love me. His love is something I treasure and I wish I could pour all my emotions into a bottle so he could drink that instead of the fire that feeds the rage of his addiction.

“Abuelita, yo lo baño. Yo estoy aquí para ayudarte.”

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SDMA Legacy 2014 Speech Chapter I Well, then once upon a time, I find myself a sophomore entering the second semester of the academic year and as a part of my Resident Assistant responsibilities, I was required to attend a training by the Department of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. I remember the topic of the presentation

was on the cycle of socialization and my presenter, Miguel Macias.

To be honest, I had no preemptive interest going into this discussion and unfortunately, this may be one of the greatest flaws I continue to acknowledge for myself; or moreover, my inability to recognize the potential for any and every social interaction

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whereby listening to another person speak about their passion, will always present an opportunity for our lives to change. As such, I fortunately made the decision on that day to openly listen to Miguel’s words and there it was, the cycle of socialization...

tance of this initiative on campus but for the purposes of brevity, I will simply label this group as the continuing phase in my transformation.

Before I could potentially digress with this speech by explaining the phases and overall implications of socialization, I simply need everyone to understand that this was the first time in my life when I realized that maybe I am not so cool and that a lot of the success or fair treatment I received during my life could be partially or significantly due to being perceived as a straight white man. In other words, I began to reflect on the origin of my identity and began to feel a little less unique in that I had never acknowledged

And before I continue with this speech and some of you may be thinking, “oh great, another discussion on white guilt and male privilege, I ask that you all continue to give my words a chance and although I do not want to spoil too much, I can honestly state that the rest of my speech is pretty good and that the conclusion will probably not leave you in tears, but that I may be asking for Miguel to bring me some tissues.

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I began to reflect on the origin of my identity and began to feel a little less unique in that I had never acknowledged the impact of numerous external forces that are not only telling me who to be, but also praising me above other people merely because [of] my skin color, gender, and sexual orientation. the impact of numerous external forces that are not only telling me who to be, but also praising me above other people merely because my skin color, gender, and sexual orientation creates a simpler implicit association with ideas of success, intelligence, and normalcy.

Certainly, this was not an easy realization to accept for myself, but this is the crazy part about my story.

At the age of 19, I had finally acknowledged the privilege I have as a “White”, heterosexual man.

But even after this presentation, the impact of such ideas stayed with me everyday, and thus serving as the reason to join the Men’s Project, as a way to learn about masculinity and appropriate ways to confront male privilege, homophobia, and misogyny.

Undoubtedly, I could talk more about the impor-

So now I find myself entering the summer after my sophomore year and interestingly enough, I can remember in great detail the internal adversity I contemplated over because I had finally left Loyola’s campus and feared that the knowledge I had acquired from my participation in the Men’s Project would flee, in the similar way that all information does after taking a final exam.

Jokes aside, I actually moved to California to work for a teaching program in which my students comprised of Latino youth entering high school and the qualification of their enrollment was based on two elements; socioeconomic status and achievement.

In other words, my students were all of Mexican descent and instead of conforming to the stereotypes surrounding Latinos in the United States, they wanted to continue their education every day during

In particular, my course was entitled life skills, and although difficult and overwhelming at first, I seized the opportunity to apply all of the knowledge bestowed upon me by SDMA, and especially made sure to use the cycle of socialization as a focal point in my classroom. Moreover, I decided that the tenets of the course would be on understanding the intersections of various identities and thus for my student to learn how to empower themselves and other people while navigating through a society which directly and indirectly upholds beliefs of social injustice.

Fortunately, I would consider my first attempt at teaching a success as my students zealously engaged in dialogue surrounding their lives and in this space, one of my male students, Chris Gomez, opened up about a lot more than I think even I would have been comfortable sharing. Specifically, Chris claimed that he did not have a father and that the man who aided in the conception of his life was now a stranger living in his home who was an alcoholic and unfortunately only possessed the capacity to communicate with his fists.

And very quickly, I really would like everyone here to truly digest this last sentence and because if you do not, then I am afraid you will not understand the end of my story.

We do live in a society in which men are socialized to internalize their feelings, especially the vulnerable ones and through perpetual habituation, men truly manifest into beings whose concern for power and anti-feminity is in an overwhelming epidemic.

Luckily, Chris was incredibly keen to understand this cycle and we then spent the summer discussing and reflecting on his behaviors and ultimately, his own way of disrupting the socializing forces in his life.

However, as all great stories go, the program approached August and there we were, my last night in California at the program’s celebration in which I personally congratulated my students for all of their accomplishments.

Unfortunately, I did not prepare a sagacious speech, but there is something that occurred when saying bye to Chris and this interaction will forever direct, re-energize, and inspire everything I do for now on. Simply, Chris walked over to me and hugged me and although not sure if this would be a bro hug, he then clung onto me. And it was during this hug, when he said, “I love

you and I will never forget what you did for me.” And there we stood, two men holding one another, crying, and I can honestly say that when I am having a bad day, I take myself to that place in time because it may have been the best hour of my life.

Following this experience, I returned to Loyola in the fall and I can distinctly remember feeling a presence of clarity with my identity in that my work and especially my relationship with Chris revealed aspects of myself I did not know. Despite my previous exposure to topics related to social injustice, I could now place a face and personal feelings to such realities and moving forward, I felt a motivation to serve as a mentor in a way I did not previously know. Furthermore, I realized the importance of empathy and one’s ability to create a safe space for others to discover themselves and ultimately to receive the constant support they deserve. Certainly, an individual’s pain and confusion is not meant to be internalized; yet if we look around, we can see the prevalence of such anguish when communicating with marginalized communities. Moreover, the exposure to such populations, such as my students in California, instilled a fervent belief in my life’s purpose and in developing this profound discovery further, I then made the conscious decision to dedicate the last two years of my Loyola experience to pursuing meaningful relationships. In other words, I wanted or I needed people to regard me as an ally and in increasing my exposure to countless uncomfortable and unfamiliar situations; I believe that each experience taught me more about who I want to be.

Undoubtedly, the relationships I have formed and the growth I have experienced could not be possible without my willingness to try, but more importantly to care. Yet, the feelings I claim as my own and the convictions I fervently defend would not be possible without this Department. Simply, SDMA is my Loyola experience and as it served as my creator during my undergraduate career, I will continue to feel its effects with every endeavor I pursue in my life.

And lastly, I need to say thank you to everyone in this room because fortunately my experience is not unique and as I am sure many of you have your own, “Chris Gomez” stories, I am so grateful to know that I am surrounded by individuals who do not need an explanation for why we must care about something greater than ourselves. Certainly, the work we do is constantly felt by those around us and on this day, similar to every day, we deserve to celebrate one another by remembering our legacy and the benefit we shall continue to provide during the rest of our lives.

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