GMU:Artists LabIII/Pedro Ramos/Topology of Masculinities Lab - Week 7: Difference between revisions

The video performance was developed in three acts that connect the expected performance of Men in an heteronormative society. Each of these acts are also rooted on expectations on which roles Men should play in society tracing back to thousands of years and generations, and which still rule gender dynamics contemporarily, at least up to some degree, although the socio-economical conditions of humanity have increased in many societies over the last century. Although reconfigurations of gender performance and slight progress in gender parity also took place in the last 100 years, the expected role of the Men is still attached in a level or another to such qualities.  

Procreation is an elemental value of the heterosexual man, not only under a biological lens, as the provider of the genes that protects the perpetuation of the human race. The number of sexual partners is not only an aggregated-value for the gender performance of Maleness between its Male peers, but also on the heterosexual market, at least in some communities. In some contexts, the feedback of the performance of Feminity in protecting the family, through keeping the order of the temple of the family house, and providing nutrition and emotional nurture to the family - which might not be allowed under the maleness performance rules -, is also expected in such communities for allowing the man to perform the sacred role of procreating with the maximum amount of partners, therefore being granted to develop the bliss of the carrier, one who is responsible for keeping the genes of the community alive for the upcoming generations. Dispensable to say that for the heritage protection of the biological qualities of the genes for posteriority, it is also of great importance the protection of the array of the gender performance rules of such society.