Comments on: The androgynous appeal. http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/the-androgynous-appeal/ 'top 40' music misses all the good stuff Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: decapitated http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/the-androgynous-appeal/#comment-124 decapitated Wed, 28 May 2008 04:34:39 +0000 http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-124 I think that society goes for the men portrayed in the first 3 pictures because they feel they can relate to them, because of their attitude as represented by the media, and also the bands that they front. I with there were more men like the later pictures you posted in the top 40, to take away from the marketed stereotypical people that exist there today. I think that society goes for the men portrayed in the first 3 pictures because they feel they can relate to them, because of their attitude as represented by the media, and also the bands that they front.

I with there were more men like the later pictures you posted in the top 40, to take away from the marketed stereotypical people that exist there today.

]]> By: ramonamac http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/the-androgynous-appeal/#comment-106 ramonamac Wed, 28 May 2008 00:48:25 +0000 http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-106 The men in the first three pictures would be hard to "market" to mainstream popular music fans because of the androgynous nature of their appearance. Gender identity in our society relies upon being able to be categorised as a man or a woman. These men do not fir in with societal expectations of whet a man "should" look like and thus, don't appeal to the homogeneous norms of masculinity. Although gender performance (see Butler 1990), is reiterated throughout the lives of men and women it is not encouraged to perform outside the gender norms. These men exemplify the alternative ways masculinity can be performed, however, our society is still to set in the binary of normative masculine and feminine 'looks' to be able to appreciate the challenge these men pose to mainstream maleness. The men in the first three pictures would be hard to “market” to mainstream popular music fans because of the androgynous nature of their appearance. Gender identity in our society relies upon being able to be categorised as a man or a woman. These men do not fir in with societal expectations of whet a man “should” look like and thus, don’t appeal to the homogeneous norms of masculinity. Although gender performance (see Butler 1990), is reiterated throughout the lives of men and women it is not encouraged to perform outside the gender norms. These men exemplify the alternative ways masculinity can be performed, however, our society is still to set in the binary of normative masculine and feminine ‘looks’ to be able to appreciate the challenge these men pose to mainstream maleness.

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