For my photo/blog assignment I went to a scout camp with my troop and took a picture of one of the troop leaders unconsciously showing male domination and gender socialization. As you can tell he is wrestling with one of the boys. His size obviously out measures the size of the boy he is wrestling, and yet the boys to the left and right are smiling and giggling not even realizing that the man is portraying socialization of gender. This picture states how being big and powerful makes you in control and dominant to the people around you. This picture also shows how the boy being strangled has ultimately given up and not even putting up a fight with the larger man. As if making a statement that size really does matter when it comes to making your point known. The two boys around him almost flaunt the fact that one of there own is the one being grappled and not themselves. The one boy on the left is giving a thumbs up almost as if he is dominant to the boy being wrestled because he does not face the jaws of life himself. I also had placed the camping gear amongst their feet to symbolize how boys relate themselves as being boys through the "rugged outdoors". In the background you can see multiple people setting up tents. I centered this as the background to show that they were camping and to symbolize that into the gender socialization. When you think of camping you think of a bunch of guys covered in mud around a fire. Typically stinky, smelly, and dirty, telling stories of their days to not be forgotten.
2 comments:
This picture shows a common act between son and father.Young boys are brought up wrestling, or playing sports with thier dads. Generation to generation males are taught usually from their elders to be tough "manly". Although not all men encourage violence intentially , the underlying factor is that it is present in their lifes from an early age. You dont see many little girls wrestling with their mothers do you ...?
This is a good picture to show how boys are different from girls. If this was a picture of a girl scout leader choking one of the girls on her troop it would be completely out of line, but since its a male doing it to another male it is somehow acceptable. This just teaches the boys in his troop that it is okay to be violent, because "thats what boys do." In fact violence is almost always unacceptable and he is not helping these boys any by rough housing with them, even if it is meant to be just playful.
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