Butler argues that we all put on a gender performance, whether traditional or not, anyway, and so it is not a question of whether to do a gender performance, but what form that performance will take.
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=gender
‘Male’ Gender Traits | ‘Female’ Gender Traits |
Independent | Dependent |
Rational | Irrational |
Rough | Gentle |
Nasty | Nice |
Brave | Cowardly |
Insensitive | Sensitive |
Aggressive | Placid |
Competitive | Co-operative |
Physical | Emotional |
Disobedient | Obedient |
Active | Passive |
Unhappy | Happy |
Assertive | Unassertive |
Confident | Unconfident |
Uncaring | Caring |
- Moss' behaviour in front of the postmanis to appear masculine.
ReplyDelete- Drinks milk in the pub, alike to a baby as if he hasn't been socialised to be masculine.
- Handshake and football lingo, hiding immasculinity.
- They both feel the need to conform to the norms of men in the pub and other masculine areas.
- Moss' cockney neck, he is acting in a feminine manner by overreacting about his neck.
-In comparison to Dan who is aggressive, controlling, masculine and the alpha-male, Moss and Roy are dominantly feminine rather than masculine.
Football is stereotypical of men.
Chloe & Alexandra
Moss and Roy are not your typical masculine stereotypes. they are the opposite of the alpha male and represents nerds or underdogs. The show introduces another load of men that are considered by Moss and Roy to be 'real men' as the two groups coerce and begin to bond the audience is subject to the two differentiations of men (moss and roy being awkward not knowing what is going on throughout and trying to conform) whereas the men act like the stereotypical 'real men'.
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IT Crowd - Are we men? Episode -
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Moss: dresses feminine, geeky/indie stereotype. well groomed; lon hair, tie, top button always done up, no facial hair.
act feminine, pedantic, goes out of his way to be a "manly man", OCD (Girly trait), glass of milk when other men were drinking, uncomfortable around alpha males, kisses a guy, moany.
Roy: Awkward, said yes to everything Dan asks because intimidated, cries, tries to fit in with alpha males (drinking, poker ect).
unshaven.
Dan: Manly, argues, aggressive, over exaggerated love for football, guns, lots of hand expressions, squares up, banter.
Iesha + Nicole- IT Crowd - Character s and behavior.
ReplyDeleteTo what extent do you think gender is an act.
Moss and Roy are not gay, they just act that way because they are not the typical stereotype of men (ie, football obsessed fans).
Throughout the show they try to behave like typical men by mixing in with football blokes. They talk differently, dress differently which they learnt from, a website - a source of media which tells men how to be proper men. Towards the end they start to come out of their comfort zone and Roy breaks down in tears while in the car with the football men.
Roy and Moss refer to the other guys to ''proper men'', which is stereotypical of men having to like football in order to become proper men.
The football men are involved in a bank robbery, which is manly and violent.
Roy and Moss were acting like men just to fit in. - therefore i think Judith Butler's theory to an extent is true.