The other

After reading and discussing Hook’s article, “Eating the other” and Dyer’s article “Stereotyping”, I found a lot of reference to sex in both articles.  Hook’s article discussed the younger generations and there fetishism with sex around Yale’s campus. He claims that many different groups in this diverse community are shopping for sexual customers just as Yale students are shopping for courses.  “To these young males and their buddies, fucking was a way to confront the other, as well as a way to make themselves the other to leave behind white innocence and enter the world of “experience”. (354)  Sexual encounters from what it seems on today’s society is a ritual more so targeting races other than their own.  I bring up this topic of sexuality because I see many ads such as the Grub Hub ads that offend involve two fictional; characters having a conversation about food, but with also a reference to sex.  One ad was, a couple talking about food where the male asks the female, “What are you in the mood for? She responds “something spicy” as they lay under the covers of their bed.  Another ad I found was of one person talking about getting a hotdog and the female thought to herself. “I hope he brought condiments too”.  (referencing to condoms).   The other article talked about the fetishism for a person of another race.  I have discussed racial fetishes in one of my 400 level classes and how race and sex is two large aspects that can be found in just about any sort of advertisement and media text.  We also discussed the desire for otherness and the many motives that are in place to be part of that “other” and have a sense of “otherness”.