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Brush and Miller have provided an astute critique of "gender-transformative" antiviolence programming, encouraging us to take more seriously the effects of history, gender, and social structure. In this commentary, we extend their analysis in four directions by highlighting the everydayness of gendered violence, the relationship between masculinity and social legibility, the seductive rewards of masculine conformity, and the way norms are enforced through nets of accountability. We elaborate on the model provided by women's empowerment self-defense training to suggest a potential way forward for these programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the author's insights on the theory that good guys do not engage or commit rape. Topics mentioned include the claim by feminist on rape which defines the sexual paradigm between masculine and feminine identities, the masculinity dilemna which can be resolve by mobilizing rape, and the burden by men of color who are labeled as rapist. It also mentioned the self-control of Christian men.

This article argues that American adolescent boys become masculine through the continual repudiation of a 'fag' identity. Using insights from sociologists of interaction and post-structural theorists of sexuality this article demonstrates that the fag insult has multiple meanings which are primarily gendered but also sexualized and raced. This article builds on prior analyses of adolescent homophobia by (1) pointing to the limits of an argument that focuses centrally on homophobia, (2) demonstrating that the fag is not only an identity linked to homosexual boys but an identity that can temporarily adhere to heterosexual boys as well and (3) highlighting the racialized nature of this fag discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses homophobia in the friendship of boys or teenage males. Topics discussed include the study from the school resource website Teach Safe Schools which shows that 80 percent of people who receives homophobic epithets were heterosexual, the author's study on the homophobia of boys which tells that their phobia was to make sure that other boys acts like guys, and insights from a high school senior telling that homophobia in boys' friendship was a way to define boys as masculine.