Professor Slams 'Hegemonic Masculinity' of Homeless Men

tenchineuro · 2018-08-07T18:50:58+00:00

The goal of her research, she explains, was to “assess the ways hypermasculinity is performed among men experiencing homelessness.” And to do this, Dej interviewed 27 homeless men and spent and additional 296 hours spying on them in homeless shelters.

Spying on the homeless, how classy.

I wonder if she bought any of her test subjects a meal?

While research on vulnerable people typically requires informed consent and approval by an ethics board, it is unclear if Dej sought this. She declined to comment on this when emailed by PJ Media, and her research makes no mention of ethics review.

Like women need to ask for consent.

During interviews with homeless men, Dej claims she learned that many aspire to “hegemonic masculinity,” which she defines as the type of masculinity that serves to “fortify the dominance of men” and ultimately “subordinate women.”

I'm missing something, how do homeless men subordinate women again?

However, she finds that it is difficult for homeless men to achieve this. Without the trappings of a successful life — such as a home or a career— many men instead develop what Dej refers to as “compensatory masculinity” to cope with their failed status.

This type of masculinity is worse than hegemonic masculinity, though not yet as bad as toxic masculinity, and it involves men “emphasizing whatever hypermasculine traits they can within their stratified social status” to the detriment, allegedly, of women.

Throughout her paper, as she writes up her research findings, Dej ridicules these men for everything from reinforcing gender stereotypes, to refusing to show emotion, to talking about how their ex-wives stole money from them.

Yeah, blaming their ex-wives for making them homeless, how mean spirited. /s

mwobuddy · 2018-08-08T02:45:08+00:00

This is extraordinarily gross. To actually bring in divide-and-conquer feminism to a group with no privileges... What's the end game exactly, trying to convince people that homeless men deserve even less resources?

You can't apply the mores of society to a group with fucking nothing.

Title	Professor Slams 'Hegemonic Masculinity' of Homeless Men
Author	omegaphallic
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Date	August 7, 2018 6:39 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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