Dos armários, fobias, discursos e resistências: cartografia das masculinidades em ambientes digitais.

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Simões Junior, Almerindo Cardoso
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Orientador(a): Rodrigues, Bruno Rêgo Deusdará
• Banca de defesa: Arantes, Poliana Coeli Costa , Rocha, Décio Orlando Soares da , Jácome, Alexandre José Pinto Cadilhe de Assis , Butturi Junior, Atilio
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Letras
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Masculinidades; Homossexualidades; Performances; Prática discursiva; Cartografia; Análise do discurso – Aspectos sociais; Homossexualidade; Masculinidade; Corpo – Aspectos sociológicos; Redes sociais on-line
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Masculinities; Homosexualities; Discursive practice; Cartography
• Palavras-chave em Espanhol: Práctica discursiva
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/18810

First, this research arises, from my concerns and questions regarding the elaborations of masculinities and homosexualities in the profiles of men on websites and apps created for the gay public. I take the liberty of calling them men who seek encounters with men, since not all consider themselves gay. As a starting point, I considered the models of masculinities presented in the common sense of Western societies. I observe that there is a hierarchy, where those who do not fit into patterns as close as possible to hegemonic masculinity (CONNELL, 2005, 2013, 2015, 2016) are marginalized. They are not objects of desire in this kind of market with so many options and choices. Since these men are outside of performances considered as masculines (SCHECHNER, 2013) or they are unable to reproduce performative acts which are understood as belonging to the male (BUTLER, 1997, 2003) we can witness the emergence of “ghettos inside the ghetto”. It is noticed that this process of search and exclusion is, more than a matter of personal taste, also elaborated thanks to social and marketing aspects that value certain characteristics over others. Analyzing, therefore, the statements produced by men in these websites and apps, I understand that discursive practices are also crossed by other discourses. Based on the concept of interdiscourse, as proposed by Maingueneau (1997, 2005, 2013, 2015), I also understand that these profiles are spaces of the constitution of ethos—or images of the self (MAINGUENEAU, 2008, 2010, 2018), since the success of users is measured by views, “woofs” and “taps”. Thanks to the advancement of technology, we are affected and influenced by the manner people relate themselves and search for partners in the digital age (BAYM, 2010). With the advent of web 3.0, all of us can produce content—which ultimately generates other ways of displaying your image to the world. I make use of the concepts of rhizome and cartography (DELEUZE; GUATARRI, 1995; PASSOS; KASTRUP; ESCÓCIA, 2015; ROLNIK, 2016) To create a possible path of analysis, eventually generating 9 readings maps from the observation of 54 profiles taking into consideration their statements. Performing a cartographic analysis of the discourse (DEUSDARÁ; ROCHA, 2021), I conclude that these statements, presented in these sites and apps are intertwined with three main institutions, not physical, but strong enough to dictate rules extremely rooted in Western societies: Patriarchy (BADINTER, 1986), Machismo (CASTAÑEDA, 2006) and Homophobia (CASTAÑEDA, 2007; BORILLO, 2010). Such encounters between institutions and statements not only promote but also perpetuate gender relations that dictate models to be followed—and exclude, reject, and kill masculine bodies that are far from the ideology of hegemonic masculinity.