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Homophobia And Masculinity

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In the article ‘Dude, You’re a Fag’: Adolescent Masculinity and Fag Discourse, the author, C. J. Pascoe, focus on the relationship between homophobia and masculinity. Homophobia is a term that is used to discriminate people of other sexual orientation. Masculinity is a term that touch bases with male genders and how their qualities are proposed to the world. In the article, the author stated, “Instead, it seems incidental in this conventional line of argument that girls do not harass each other and are not harassed in this same manner” (Pascoe 330). Societies builds the brand which promotes men having masculinity traits. When men put themselves in the opposite position of what society thinks is right, people start to judge and put their negative

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