Sexual Aggression In Bars: Article Analysis

Edward H. Thompson Jr. and Elizabeth J. Cracco authors of the journal article “ Sexual Aggression in Bars: What College Men Can Normalize” try to explain the importance of how sexual aggression affect the majority of women who attended bars, or college parties. Sexual aggressiveness is considering part of a masculine norm to many men who attend bars. In this research study Edward and Elizabeth were trying to find out figure out what causes men to become sexual aggressors towards women at bars and college parties. The significance of the research study is to figure out whether sexual aggressiveness should be consider as a norm of masculinity as much as we consider it as a sexual assault. To many men sexually aggressiveness towards women is considering part of …show more content…
They relate to each other because gender roles, masculinity, femininity and ideology influence the behaviors males and females should behave. The authors use gender role within the context of their article because they state that men should act a certain way. The authors use masculinity and femininity by stating that we as human do gender by putting on a show that could either be consider traditional and sometimes defines who we are as a person. When we do gender we are basically building our femininity or masculinity and if we fail to just show one of these than this is consider not being part of the norm. Masculinity is view as males being tough and to some extent violent. While femininity can be describe as being weaker and peaceful. Ideology can also relate to the article because the article is based of the norms of masculine ideology. The authors state that many men use masculine ideology as an excuse for them to sexually harass a women. Men specially in bar setting believe that sexually harassing a women either verbally or physically make them more manly and other men view this as part of the masculinity