"Charming Bad Guy": The Negotiation Between The "Bad Guy Discourse" and The "New" Masculinities
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Lee, Ru-Ming
Abstract
From the common use of the Chinese proverb “男人不壞，女人不愛(girls like bad guys)” and its inconsistency with the normal meanings of “好(good)” and “壞(bad),” this study intends to uncover the ideology behind daily conversations concerning Taiwan masculinity discourses. The researcher use the method of genealogy to illustrate the process of the “presence” and the “transoformation” of Taiwan masculinity discourses, especially from the “new” masculinity discourses to the “bad guy discourse.” The researcher indicates that the feminism discourses in the 1990s formed the social context for the emergence of the “new” masculinity discourses. At the climax of the issue about the anti-sexual harassment movement within the feminism realm, there was a split between “good girl” and “bad girl” feminism discourses, which opened an opportunity for the “new” masculinity discourses to defend masculine practices and patriarchy in an “political correct” way. However, the “great renunciation of masculinity” of the “new” masculinity discourses only created ambiguous boundaries of masculinity and made masculinity discourses vulnerable to feminist criticisms. Using the “essentialism” strategy, which contained the mythological quotation of the proverb “男人不壞，女人不愛”, the “virility metaphor” supporting the essentialism, and the “charming” discourse escaping the charge of patriarchal complicity, the “bad guy discourse” successfully negotiated the problems left by the “constructualism” of the “new” masculinity discourses and became the “new-political correct” rhetoric of Taiwan masculinity discourses.
Subjects
masculinities
girls like bad guys
new man
charming bad guy
bad guy discourse
SDGs
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-98-R92341053-1.pdf
Size
23.53 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):6d47793880b463c37d40cbfa1b64e4a9