Abstract
This paper focuses on the college hook up culture and slut discourse. I analyze the documentary feature ‘‘Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture’’ that present a provocative sense of the hook up culture. Drawing from the narratives of students presented in the documentary, I argue that the college hook up culture is bounded with heteronormativity, where participants of the culture are performing gender positions available to them. I claim that the culture privileges masculinity and necessitates heteronormal performances in order for students to participate. Often ignored by the discourse of campus crime, I argue that women are true victims and they take up sexual performances only with great diffıculty as articulated with slut discourse.
Highlights
Hook up is a common North American notion describing sexual encounter with no strings attached among adolescents (Manning, Longmore & Giordano, 2005; Paik, 2010) and adults (Olmstead, Billen, Conrad, Pasley & Fincham, 2013; Olmstead, Pasley & Fincham, 2013
The documentary, Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture, depicts us the gender performances of students in a strictly gendered, heterosexual space, where mostly women exist as objects of sexual desire (Kalish, p. 162) ‘‘For many of the young men, young women are vessels in which they find pleasure, or, as we see here, women are vehicles which men use in the pursuit of status, which is something college men appear to think about and act on in meaningful ways’’ (Kalish, p. 162)
The college hook up culture works in a way, as depicted, that privileges masculinity and heterosexuality upon which students are forced to perform their gender
Summary
Hook up is a common North American notion describing sexual encounter with no strings attached among adolescents (Manning, Longmore & Giordano, 2005; Paik, 2010) and adults (Olmstead, Billen, Conrad, Pasley & Fincham, 2013; Olmstead, Pasley & Fincham, 2013)1. Performing Heteronormativity: The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality Ziya Toprak
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