Good Guys Don T Rape: The Influence Of Gender According To Pascoe

In today’s society, there is evidence that gender roles hold high standards in forming an identity, whether that gender is male or female. These standards put pressure on either gender to uphold them and commit to specific behaviors/actions that validate their very being. For men, this includes being considered masculine, or portraying the sense that they are authoritative over others, in which this includes displaying attitudes that contribute to female subordination. According to Pascoe (2016) in his article “Good Guys Don’t Rape” men are given the opportunity to challenge rape yet reinforce rape attitudes at the same time that are contained within rape culture and masculinity considered “norms.” Pascoe, illustrates that rape can be seen

Jay, had been charged with an account of sexual assault, when one of his classmates had accused him of raping her violently. Jay continually contended that he was innocent and had committed no such crime. It was found later however, that Jay had completely supported rape in one of his conversations he had with friends. Jay and his other high school friends discussed a girl that attended their high school, with evident dislike and disgust. Near the end of this conversation, Jay had seemingly threatened to “take her out to the street races and leave her there. Leave her there so she can get raped.” All of Jay’s friends laughed at that remark. The method of “mobilizing rape” is therefore identified within this narrative. While Jay was upset and furious about being accused with rape, he supposedly had no problem with sexual dominance over women, even if it was violating the legal code that consisted of rape. Jay found a way to navigate between the opposition of opposing rape yet supporting masculinity and dominance at the same time (Pascoe, 2014). According to one theory, Hegemonic masculinity is a normative ideology that works to put a man in utmost power, and in order to preserve that power, women must be inferior to men (Connell, Meserschmidt, 2005 as cited in Smith et al, 2015) (Mankowski, Maton, 2010 as cited in Smith et al, 2015). Jay’s story portrays this sort

A finding in the study conducted was that women who were placed in suppressed situations provided increased stress and aggression for men. In a different study, it was discovered that along the six facets that were constructed “feminine avoidance, status and achievement, toughness and aggression, restricted emotionality, nonrelational sexuality, and dominance,” all of these were associated with carnal aggression committed against women (Zubriggen, 2010 as cited in Smith et al., 2015). It was then envisioned that each of these dimensions, or paths of sexual aggression and gender role stress could be followed in compound, numerous ways. However, there is an evident relationship between subordinate women and sexual aggression committed by men. Males who tend to encounter frequent masculine gender role stress are likely to have increased vocal aggression, negative responses, and rage when their masculinity is seen as threatened by a woman. As a reaction to this threat, men feel the need to make up for their lack in masculinity by participating in attitudes (like aggression) that oppress females and make them feel inferior (Moore et al, 2008 as cited in Smith et al.,