Abstract for week 6

The selections from the book Male Fantasies were primarily about how the male body was viewed in the German fascist movement through the eyes of the Freikorps. It looks at how there are two different one is seen as something dirty, a beast, the other is something strictly formed under one leader. It talks about how the freikorp soldiers are formed without a moment that is not carefully watched and through hard physical punishment. It goes on to look at the philosophy of junger, that the new man is or should strive to be a machine man without any of the impediments, such as emotion, that a human faces. It also looks at how the army is made to operate as a machine and how the ego is always in danger of splintering.
Tank girl is a graphic novel about a very aggressive women named tank girl. She joined the army as a teenager. At first she is assigned to clean toilets. After two years she is given a special assignment which she completes and is rewarded for its completion by being de briefed in the showers. She gets a different job after this and in the midst of a prank played against her violently kills a man. She continues going of on other missions but they all seem to end in with her screwing or killing the wrong people.

Fascism- A political movement or government run by a dictatorship with socioeconomic control, suppression of opposition and nationalism.
Hans Jurgen Syberberg- A German film director who sees the human being a machine.
Freikorps- A paramilitary organization who fought against the enemies of Weimer Germany.
White Terror- Acts of violence carried out against suspected communists.
Ego- Freud’s concept in this case it applies more to a body awareness and who we see ourselves.

Why was it important that any humanness, such as emotion, was hidden?
What does the fact that physical exertion and punishment were seen as important to the making of a soldier mean?
What does the movement gain by being so anti-feminine?
In both of these pieces, why is there such a strong link between sexuality and violence?
In Tank Girl what is the significance that she as a women seems to fail all of her missions?