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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

University of Oregon Class Focuses on ‘Consequences’ of Whiteness, Masculinity, and Heterosexuality

The University of Oregon is offering a course this summer to teach students about the “consequences” of masculinity in the United States.

Taught by Ashley Woody and Tony Silva, Sociology 399: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Heterosexuality is a featured course on the sociology department’s website, and it aims to take a critical approach to the historical development of masculinity and heterosexuality.

The class —which also goes by “Sociology 399: Straight White Heterosexuality Masculinity” — must be taken for a grade by sociology majors, but its description notes that grading is “optional for all other students.”

“What do whiteness, heterosexuality and masculinity mean today? How do they differ across contexts? How do they intersect, and what are the consequences?” the course description opines.

Neither Woody nor Silva responded to a request for more information about the class, but they appear to take a social constructionist approach to gender theory. In one of Silva’s recent works, for example, he interviewed 19 men from Grindr and Craigslist to document the “centrality of heterosexuality to normative rural masculinity.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOL

Obama released more Demons from hell.

Anonymous said...

I can't wait for the snowflakes civil war.

Anonymous said...

This is our biggest worries this year?

LOL! No, shaking my head in awe...

Anonymous said...


White, heterosexual, masculine men call courses like this BS!

So do Black, Yellow, Brown, etc. heterosexual, masculine men!

Anonymous said...

Just another attempt at wussifying Alpha males by the left queer groups that need to paint rainbow cross walks ect. to justify their existence.