Blog #6

1.(b) In Heasley's reading, something that I found significant to me was when the ideas that someone that isn't performing their roles as in masculinity becomes problamatic to society, because they are automatically percieved as gay. From the readings and what i have realized is that no man wants to be challeged or be questioned in the aspect of being percieved as gay. They are seen as sissy and sensitive, as Heasley describes.
1. (a) In Hennen's article, something that was new to me was the Bear culture is 90% attitude and 10% show. When i read that, it changed my ideas that if it's more about the show than the look, then these men , to me, are trying to fit into heteroesexual culture. I have heard of the "Bears", but I never really understood what they were really about until Hennen's article made clear some aspects and attributes.
1. (a) Bergling's Article/study about sissyphobia was extremley interesting to me because of the differences in homophobia and sissyphobia. Men are afraid of the "acting" feminine. being a sissy is a problem for straight men. I think that the fear stems from people's forced upbringing, especially with men and having to be tough and hiding feelings.
2.(b) Bergling's article really hit home with my brother. My brother any my boyfriend both have a problem with gay people "acting" out and trying to get atttention, as so they say. I never unserstood why it bothered them but after reading Berglings article/study it made sense that my brother and my boyfriend constantly have been forced to see things a certain way and not deal with different aspects of masculinity or feminity.