Feb 11 2009
I met A. this week at the new Geeky Book Cafe Borderlands in SF in The Mission. We had a great meandering talk about art, the CityArts cooperative gallery, Gender and Fat Activism.
She said that in relationship, younger men "feel" like girls. That is fascinating. Are boys really just girls underneath it all? That reminds me of my Pitbull Model of Masculinity. "You are not born a pitbull, you become one." Boys are emotionally immature, territorial, aggressive, and rigid because they are raised through abusive enculturation. Underneath it we are just girls who were pathologically socialized. This model rests on a hunch that girl-socialization with its emphasis on learning to nurture, socialize and cooperate has continuity with pre-agricultural and primate sociality. It is older. The emotional scarification of young boys is of more recent vintage.
I met A. this week at the new Geeky Book Cafe Borderlands in SF in The Mission. We had a great meandering talk about art, the CityArts cooperative gallery, Gender and Fat Activism.
She said that in relationship, younger men "feel" like girls. That is fascinating. Are boys really just girls underneath it all? That reminds me of my Pitbull Model of Masculinity. "You are not born a pitbull, you become one." Boys are emotionally immature, territorial, aggressive, and rigid because they are raised through abusive enculturation. Underneath it we are just girls who were pathologically socialized. This model rests on a hunch that girl-socialization with its emphasis on learning to nurture, socialize and cooperate has continuity with pre-agricultural and primate sociality. It is older. The emotional scarification of young boys is of more recent vintage.
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