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Re: Bros Before Hos the Musical

I wrote an article a few weeks ago that was featured on Feministing's main blog about a youtube video titled "Bros Before Hos: The Musical," that generated a fair amount of comments and confusion. I refuse to re-post the youtube video, as I feel it was sexist and homophobic and perhaps even posting it in the first place was a bad idea. That said, my article was moreso a rant than a critique and as such I was criticized that I should be able to "take a joke" and not fight irrelevant battles. Typical way of dismissing anger about sexism and homophobia: feminists just can't take a joke.
I responded accordingly:

Based on the comments, I see that is confusion about the homophobia expressed in this video. Although some of you expressed that the sexism is blatant, others argue that the homophobia in this video is non-existent or even irrelevant. Although it didn't help that I lacked coherence in connecting the dots between sexism and homophobia. I think the first concept I must address is that sexism and homophobia are interrelated. Sexism is the institution that subjugates one gender to another. Homophobia re-instates that subjugation by ensuring that there is no blurring of lines between the genders. Speaking to an audience of men, Michael Kimmel says, "Homophobia is the fear that other men will unmask us, emasculate us, reveal to us and the world that we do not measure up, that we are not real men." The men in this video re-enact the institution of sexism and keep it in check with homophobia. The structure of this event is organized neatly in the video as such: A) female figure in a menge-a-trois demands, lifting her status from object to subject B) the two male figures explore the conflict which arises in a sexist system when gender and sexual lines a blurred, ostensibly through sex, wherein gender lines are usually instated and/or re-instated C)The conflict resolves by ejecting the "single" guy from the group and instating heteronormativity.

There, I said it, now I can sleep at night.

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