Essay On Hookup Culture

Throughout our life we will see racism, poverty, politics, and even something as simple gender differences. I am guilty of creating gender roles, whether that be in class, at home, in a grocery store, etc. It is something we will never escape, and it is because of stereotypes, our history, and the distinction between gender on its own. Boys are supposed to like trucks and girls play with dolls. In this class I have found gender roles in every topic we have covered. The two topics that stuck out to me and that I will talk about in this paper are hookup culture and dating. These two are sort of opposite, but I find the differences in roles between them to be important.

As a college student, I see hookup culture everywhere I look on campus. That isn’t to say we have an unfaithful campus whose afraid of commitment, but it is nonetheless something we should be aware of. I do not have a solution to fixing hookup culture, nor does anyone else for that matter. It is something that has increased dramatically ever since contraception came about, and unless we put the condom and pill companies out of business I don’t see it going away.

Women are usually the “victims” per say because the men are the ones who “pressure them” or “don’t have to deal with the aftermath.” Women need to accept that they’ve hooked up with someone, and the possibility of getting pregnant or even contracting an STD is very real. “More young women than young men now contract STD’s” (Zimmerman, 57). They also go through an emotional rollercoaster as they wait for a call from their hookup partner, or debate whether they should call them the day after. I do think that men leave a bit of their heart with their hookup partner, because it is naive to say that women are the only ones who feel the emotion, even if it was just meaningless