f you have no doubt in your sexuality then you wouldnt feel threatened by someone who is. It says in the Introduction Straight women, on the other hand, often dont seem as threatened by lesbianism. If according to the article Designing Men: Reading the Male Body as Text, Culbertson states that Woman rarely have power(Culbertson 3), then why does he also go on to later say that, masculinity as a gender construction in virtually every society must be constantly defended(Culbertson 4). If men are the more powerful people then why are they so easily threatened by something that rarely has any affect on women? Also if men are the more powerful then why does Culbertson also state that, the homosocial system can be maintained only when men avert their gaze from each other; the gaze figuratively, must remain focused on a woman(Culbertson 3). This is because they are not more powerful, they have just always been taught that they are the stronger gender. Why do men need women to feel confident in themselves, while women freely look at each other and themselves without a second thought? I think this is for reasons like the old saying, Behind every great man is a great woman. Men are brought up, just as women are, to believe that they are to find the perfect woman. They are brought up with a psychological need for a woman. Men need women to make them feel masculine. Some men feel that having a girlfriend or wife shields them from the gay community. With masculinity in a male comes great vulnerability and complication. Men always rattle on about how had women are to read, but really they are just as hard to read if not more. The only reason the male body is a difficult text to read is because it is not exposed as much as the female body. I disagree with Ward when he states, The male body has been a cinematic fetish for many years(Ward 1). I think that women have been the cinematic fetishes while men have hidden themselves behind them. I have yet t...
