Abstract

Artykuł poświęcony jest nowej, ośmioodcinkowej edycji programu Porady różowej brygady (Queer Eye, 2018–) udostępnionego na platformie Netflix, ujętej w kontekście dyskusji dotyczącej toksycznej męskości i masowych morderstw w amerykańskich liceach. Optymistyczne opinie dotyczące programu Porady różowej brygady koncentrują się zwykle na wymiarze tolerancji wobec mniejszości seksualnych lub – jak chcą tego sami prowadzący – akceptacji. Zwracając uwagę na wymiar gatunkowy (ustalona i powtarzalna dramaturgia odcinków), ideologiczny (figura homoseksualnego eksperta) i ideologiczno-produkcyjny (dobór bohaterów programu), przeanalizuję wizerunki uczestników, wskazując na odstępstwa od dominujących stereotypowych wzorców męskości, które wydają się reprezentować poszczególne postacie, upatrując w tym działaniu, jeśli nie rozszerzenia kategorii męskości, to przynajmniej drobnych rys na jej monolicie.

Alternate abstract:

Article, which title quotes the one of Michael Ian Black’s commentary published on The New York Times website (“The Boys Are Not All Right”, February 21, 2018), analyses Netflix’s 2018 reboot of Queer Eye makeover show in context of toxic masculinity and mass shootings in American high schools. The shooting in Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 was an 18th one in 2018 according to the Gun Violence Archive statistics. Commentators emphasised the fact that the perpetrators are mainly (white) man (teenage boys in case of school rampages) and connect it with toxic masculinity, a category that has been linked with Roland F. Levant research (published i.a. in his article The New Psychology of Men in 1996). Rather optimistic views on Queer Eye usually concentrate on programme’s promotion of tolerance towards sexual minorities or on – as the Fab 5 themselves state – acceptance. Stressing the genre convention (fixed and repeatable dramaturgy), ideology (homosexual man as a lifestyle expert) and ideological production choices (participants selection) I will analyse partaker’s representation, pointing out the differences between real people and the dominant stereotypes in American culture they were chosen to dismantle, seeing it, if not as a broadening the concept of masculinity, then at least as a subtle cracks on the manhood monolith.

Article, which title quotes the one of Michael Ian Black’s commentary published on The New York Timeswebsite (“The Boys Are Not All Right”, February 21, 2018), analyses Netflix’s 2018 reboot of Queer Eyemakeover show in context of toxic masculinity and mass shootings in American high schools. The shooting in Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 was an 18th one in 2018 according to the Gun Violence Archive statistics. Commentators emphasised the fact that the perpetrators are mainly (white) man (teenage boys in case of school rampages) and connect it with toxic masculinity, a category that has been linked with Roland F. Levant research (published i.a. in his article The New Psychology of Men in 1996). Rather optimistic views on Queer Eye usually concentrate on programme’s promotion of tolerance towards sexual minorities or on – as the Fab 5 themselves state – acceptance. Stressing the genre convention (fixed and repeatable dramaturgy), ideology (homosexual man as a lifestyle expert) and ideological production choices (participants selection) I will analyse partaker’s representation, pointing out the differences between real people and the dominant stereotypes in American culture they were chosen to dismantle, seeing it, if not as a broadening the concept of masculinity, then at least as a subtle cracks on the manhood monolith.

Details

Title
„Chłopcy nie mają się dobrze”. Porady różowej brygady, Ameryka i toksyczna męskość.
Author
Rawska, Monika
Pages
109-132
Section
Artykuły
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Jagiellonian University-Jagiellonian University Press
e-ISSN
24506249
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Polish; French; English
ProQuest document ID
2519933084
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.