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Cbss hits sikcom the big bang theory delights in poconfun at its male characters for their fan boy obsessions with comic books
Video games
And often the punch lines arent really jokes per say instead laughs are derived by simply referencing something that sounds veagly nerdy did you shut the tv off in the middle of the classic deep space nine starric the origional serious trouble with triples crowsoperrips
I suspect this is one of the reasons
Why so many people involved in geek subcultures tend to dislike the show
So much its essentially one long joke at their expense
But id argue theres something more prinicious going on just under the surface
So thats cool
If i cried yeah
I probably want it yeah
Beyond its general mocking of giedom
The show is relctant ant in making fun of its male characters for not living up to traditional expectations of men work on the surface
It might seem like these nerdy nice guys represent a welcome alternative to the martual architypes that weve all come to expect from hollywood
But on closer inspection
We find that despite their status as nurdy outsiders
These guys are still complicit in many of the most destructive aspects of toxic mascuerity
Yes
But our society is undergone a paradigm shift in the information age
Children
U and i or the alphamales
We shouldnt have to back down
Im going to a certain my dominant space to face in my previous videosa about the addokable massagerous trobe
I discussed the creepy entitled and often sexist ways in which these geeky guys treat women yet its be they laughing
Were laughing
And we get them up to about about a point one five one alcohol level
And tell them more milliaires
But i think its also worth examining how they treat each other
The first thing we need is a theme
Im thinking to one of the century mullele roush
Im thinking you need a testaster own patch
And by extension how the shows writers end up reinforcing a whole bunch of regressive ideas
About what it means to be a real man beer wings
Sliders
We can watch the football game
I even painted by stomach
Theres a running gag on the show about how lonnard doesnt understand sports or other activities that are stereotypically associated with men go sports
Oh In case
Youre in the mood for baseball
I didnt want to work pretitiuous um yes are you people watching this
This is amazing
Or what swety thats a highlight from the ninety eight champion game
Not know that
The joke relies on the assumption that all men are supposed to like sports
And therefore its inherently funny and absurd if a guy doesnt now sit coms are of course supposed to be funny
But as with all comedy its important to ask
Who are we meant to laugh with
And who are we meant to laugh at notice the laughter in this scene stems almost entirely from seeing howard wearing an april
Whats with the gloves they complete my unstanmble
What you want the humor relies on the sexus idea that domestic tasks like cooking and cleaning our womens work
And therefore howards masculity is somehow diminished by being forced to clean the house
This reductive mix of sexism and a masculation is really at the heart of the shows committee forurope
When i failed to open this jar
And you succeed it was establish
Was the alpha male im not strong enough leenoard youll have to do it go ahead
Its preluced notice that these jokes arent designed to challenge your subvert the limiting and often toxic ideas about what it means to be a real man
You want some help with them
No no no instead the punch lines reinforce this notion
That guys who arent physically strong tough or athletic are unmaninly thats enough cardio from me
I tch ch out for weight
And therefore a worthy of ridicle
Something isnt make sense in order to move forward in this discussion
Were onna have to get academic just for a minute
And very quickly defined a couple terms
Those are hegemonic mascuunity and hyper mascuinity headgemonic mascuinity is a term
Thats used to describe the socially constructed ideal of manhood
Its characterized by things like physical strength
Aggression
Domination
Suppression of emotions and heteorosexuality
The ideal varies somewhat based on factors like geography
But here unconcerned with white western manhood has shaped by hollywood for obvious examples think of coding in barbarry james bond or cacapted america
All the guys on the big bang theory are depicted as embodiying the exact opposite of that hegeommonic ideal
So much
So that simply seeing them
Them ss up as their favorite superhero is enough itself a punchtuong
I mean
Oh
The important thing to understand about this manhood ideal is that its a fiction
It only really exists in the cultural imagination
Which means that man can never actually achieve it
However its still a standard against which men are held and compared the social expectations and pressures on men to try to achieve some version of it is real as
Is the social status either lost or gained based on a mans perceived proxximity to that ideal the term hyperascuinity is a little different
He refers to the set of attitudes and behaviors associated with the pursuit of that hegegeommonic ideal hypermascuunity includes things like aggressive competition
Sexual conquest and destructive or risk
Taking behaviors like fighting
Reckless driving or heavy drinking
Hypermasculinity is also obsessively
And i feminine now keep it in mind
Because its going to be important a little later hypermasculan behaviors or how men are taught to perform their men hood to prove that they are closer to that fictional ideal than the other men around them
Oh No
Before geeks on the big bk theory are shown constantly attempting to perform some version of hypermascuinity
Now prepare yourselves for what may come shelfton
Did you really think were going to fight
Theyre spectacular failures in their quests to prove their manhood
Then provides the iranonic cook behind much of the shows comedy
I say this one time instead of whmping out lets be bad asse is okay
Ill be a bad as
But only if you ininis where to be one too
Now youd think a bunch of gieks
Who are regularly derided for being
Unmanly would be supportive of each others insecurities
And although there are fleeting moments of compassion between the four friends
They spend much of their time mocking and humiliating each other for not living up to the manhood ideal
Ill see you decided to go with pathetic and frightened its one of his best moves
Es i having female problems
If youre canky and retaining water
I have a theory
I have to talk to about this this cheese
Why do you girls always want to talk about things
This may seem a little counterintuitive
Why would nerds who are bullied for not acting mainly enough then turn around and replicate that same behavior within their own circles
Well its because one of the ways men learn to perform men hood shall pass is by exerting power over others remember
When i said that one of the characteristics of hypermascuenerity was an obsession with being anti feminine a girls night i love im up for an evening
Talking about rainbows
Unicorns and mininstal crauts
Time and again we see the men on the show demeaning women and expressing the casual disstain for anything considered girl stuff seon the city yykes
Hey i happen to love this movie
Hey
Im swatch it maybe all our periods
Itsynchronied anti feminine attitudes are also connected to the ways that men police each others
Presentation of manhood
Because of your lactos and tolerance
You switched over the soy mek soy contains estrogen mimicking compounds
I think your morning ning
Cocopufs are turning you into a historical woman
Just so were clear when men insult and a little other men by calling them women
That is an extension of masaggeny y youre controlling your euroitate
Here you go again mag magman
Youre only proven my point little lady
Nowhere is this dynamic as clear as in the shows treatment of rush
It was only pushing away
Because he loves you
Ive got everything we will need for the big game
Lofat
Turkey
Jokey Loka
Beill hundred calories
Snackpad
Pick up ay chrome moma
Youre there you might be short one well be making fun of you or the things you like or th the fact that you just want to have fun in practically every episode over ten seasons
The other characters on the show make fun of rodge for acting too much like a woman doesnt a put charma party couple of browse
Hanging out giggling eating cookie do and watching princess bread please stop as you might expect the jokes
Targeting rage for not being manually enough are steeped a ththick layer of homophobiwww thats not even the best point
See i have want to check it out
You can wear yours
And we can added those sort fights
Whenever we want the humor consistently codes
Rogis more feminent behaviors and interests as gay
And thats always the punch of this
May i have a cross subt with a little plum reloup this now who we en ask
Why im not sitting here with a guy
Drinking a grassupper with a little umbrella right i love a chocolate martini
Why ah rais is the only one of the four guys
Who after two hundred and three episodes still doesnt have a steady girlfriend
You have any idea
What was likely be the only one without a girlfriend
Even if i get one someday ill see
If the guy youre got a gone after a shoudon couooo
All the others have had their long term partners join the mancast
I dont think its a coincidence that the character most ridiculed for being the most unmanly in a group of men specifically coded to be unmanly is also the only man of color on the show
And theres such rafits
Its atly in the hollywds long running tradition of mocking and diminishing the sexuality of asian men at times
Rosh seems comfortable with his softer more a minine version of manhood
But the show and the other male characters are not and they let rosh and as the audience
No that theres something wrong with him for not being manly enough every chance they get levels
Excuse me
I happen to be very comfortable with my masculinity
How is that possible in her thousand nineninety ty book mmcuununities rw connel lays out the theory
That theres not just one form of mass cuunity
But rather many different forms of manhood
That all exist within a hierarchy
The white hederosexual hypermasculine ideal is at the top of that hierarchy
And then all other forms of masculinity are made suppordinate to it forms of mdhood
That are in any way associated with homosexuality or femininity are pushed further down on the hierarch
When you slapped
Youll take it
Like it
It this hihierarticical structure then creates a social system
Where in men are encouraged to compete with other men for status and dominics
Even within their own peer groups and subperaches
Chnow this is why
Even men who are bullied for not meeting the hypermascuan ideal often feel the only way they can be seen as real men come on get out is by diminishing someone else i have she bothered destroyer
I will have the woman
Every morning you i was duood on champie in the bus camp
The relationship dynamics between leonard
Sheldon
Howard and rodge provides us with a microcosm of how this hierarchy of masculities works dam glad
You finally got a girlfriend
But you have to do all that lovdubby stuff in front of those of us
Who dont actually he might have to theres an economic concept known as a positional good in which an object is only valued by the posessor
Because its not possessed by others natural
And my happiness is not dependent on my best friend
Mismiserable on alone
Thank you imight be ying
If i said it was on a little bit of a park
Practically every aspect of their friendship
From the personal to the professional
Revolves around competition to that to send a message
She is not for you
But if you could not stop hitting on my lady
You will feel the full extent of my rath
How it relax
I im not interested in your girlfriend
I hope i because you
You dont want to mess with me
Im crazy
Do it in fact
Their entire lives are defined by an never ending game of one openship ship
Dont just stay on their takyour bread cell on the big bang theory
Just like in the real world
Women are often leverage as symbols of status within groups of mmale friends
Thats there to people
People they dont believe me the show consistently frames manmanhood as something that either refirmed or diminished by the ability of the guys to score with women
Wow
Sex at work
Lieven alone
Thats my girlfriend
Sorry
We just had sets with me at work
Deam
How do you swing that two women at the same time nice job player
Whenever any one of the four nerds doesnt have a girlfriend
The others will ridiculle him for it knock
Knock i have a girlfriend
And you dont i have a functioning and satisfying relationship with a female
You have none under the narrow constraints of hypermasculity
The only thing worse than being unable
To acquire a woman is being controlled by one
I dont loload ed an app that might be helpful in this situation
Now the women on the show do occasionally join in with the ridicle ue
But the vast majority of the put downs of nurdy
Men dont come from women
They come from other men
Amy y
Please
I am trying to figure out a way
To intellectually masculate a dear friend of mine
Hey
Why you decide who is better in bed
Be godd
Zac or easy little little
And theres ununfortunate tendency in our culture
To try to pin the blame for mens a masculation on women
But most of the time
The perpetrators are men were participating in this competition for dominance
And in so doing
They become complicit in the very structures
That harm and exclude them
You know for a groupa guys
Who claim they spent most of their lives
Me and bullied you can be real jerks shame on all of you
All this competitive and anti family and behavior is framed by the show as harmless
As good natured fund
As normal and natural and inevitable for men
But the reality is that the social pressures
That society places on men to engage in this hypermasculine competition is anything but harmless
It can be dangerous for men and for those around them
Both in terms of physical health and emotional well being it makes it difficult
If not impossible for straight
Men to be vulnerable and carrying with others
Which in turn makes it very hard to build close supportive friendships with women and with other men quite a gesture on your park
Shown yourself to be the bigger man
Thank you
Which i find totally unacceptable i must be the bigger man
But unlike leonard
Sheldon
Howard and raj
Who are locked into a perpetual competition by their writers
Men in the real world have a choice we can choose to reject the battle for dominance and instead embrace empathetic and supportive forms of manhood
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So much
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