36 - Masculinités médiatiques
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Annabelle Allouch, Caroline Muller
"In the name of assholes" ? A reception analysis of Victoire Tuaillon’s podcast
Le Temps des médias n° 36, Printemps 2021.
How does one listen to a feminist and critical podcast on masculinities ? Based on the analysis of readers’ emails sent to Victoire Tuaillon as part of her podcast "Les Couilles sur la table", this article seeks to sketch out the conditions for receiving and appropriating a media discourse on masculinities. For the listener, the passage from listening to the gesture of writing allows the staging of a work of construction of a militant sensibility but also of stabilisation of a masculine identity represented as "new" and for which the programme has constituted, if not an epiphany, at least a personal and militant resource. It seems then that the "Couilles sur la table" listeners’ mail is invested as a space for a gender performance marked by the distancing – relative or radical – of the markers of a hegemonic masculinity but also by the demonstration of the mastery of the codes of feminist conversation.