A Pleasant Sensation from rubbing? — The Masculinity Construction of Aluba
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Kuo, Yi-Ling
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
‘Aruba’ is known as a kind of playing behavior in masculine community. This behavior proceeds from that a crowd of male grabs and lifts one male and then hit or rub victim’s reproductive organ against a hard objective. Not only in Taiwan, but in Hong Kong, mainland China and oversea Chinese community, similar behaviors in different names also prevail. Generally, Aruba is recognized as a form of masculine friendship expression. However, it also could be one way to bully other people. This explains the duality of Aruba. In most cases, the interpretation of Aruba and the weight of these two components are ambiguous. The explanation depends on different situation.
Aruba is the process to accumulate masculinity in dirty play. By understanding of Aruba experience from male, this study analyzed the stereotype of constructed masculinity. The philosophy of masculinity includes: traditional heterosexual, misogyny, homophobia, identification male self and group with sex, the relying on homogeneous sentiment exchange, the competition among men, and men’s cruel culture coming from competition. Traditionally, the development of masculinity was supervised by male’s heteronomy and it confirms that each male will obey the same masculinity construction. This phenomenon expresses the uneasiness and uncertainty of pursuing the masculinity for a male. He needs condensations to stabilize or affirm himself time by time. This interprets that Male is always occupied by an extreme uneasiness. He is always afraid himself doesn’t satisfy the requirement of masculinity. Obviously, the masculinity essence is pretty fragile and unreal.
Subjects
阿魯巴
男性研究
男子氣概
恃強欺弱行為
霸凌
男性友誼
強制傳統異性戀厭
惡女性
同性戀恐懼症
生殖器認同
男性校園生活
aruba
masculinity
bully
traditional heterosexual
misogyny
homophobia
identification of reproductive organ
SDGs
Type
thesis
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