揭露新冠肺炎期间白人的年龄歧视

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Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14791420.2021.2020863

Kyle D Christensen

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摘要

摘要本文探讨了在新冠肺炎大流行期间，年龄歧视和青年至上主义如何影响了有毒白人男性的反掩盖态度和行为。我认为，由于老年人在整个疫情期间特别脆弱，而且口罩往往意味着这种脆弱性，白人男子气概试图通过抵制口罩来保持权力，从而避免被视为老年人。通过分析唐纳德·特朗普在2020年美国总统竞选中的反口罩言论，我展示了白人男子气概对口罩的抵制是多么有害，是为了表现自己年轻，年轻人与权力、白人和健康的观念息息相关。

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Unmasking the ageism of whiteness during COVID-19

ABSTRACT This essay explores how ageism and youth supremacy have informed the anti-masking attitudes and actions of toxic white masculinity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that because elderly populations have been particularly vulnerable throughout the pandemic and because face masks often connote this vulnerability, white masculinity has sought to maintain power by resisting masking, and therefore, avoiding being perceived as old. By analyzing Donald Trump’s anti-masking rhetoric from his 2020 U.S. Presidential campaign, I show how toxic white masculinity’s resistance to masking is an effort to present itself as youthful, with youth tied to notions of power, whiteness, and health.

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Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies Multiple-

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3.10

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期刊介绍： Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.