Scientific Articles

• Torras-Gómez, E., López de Aguileta, A. ., Puigvert, L., Flecha, R., Bordanoba-Gallego, L., & Racionero-Plaza, S. (2024). Defying Predatory Capital: Embracing Beauty, Resisting Ugliness, and Striving for Freedom. International Journal of Sociology of Education, 13(2), 81–95. https://doi.org/10.17583/rise.14330 
• Puigvert, L., Racionero-Plaza, S., López de Aguileta, G., Tellado, I., Molina, S., Pulido-Rodríguez, M. A., Ugalde, L., & Flecha, R. (2023). Disdainful Hookups: a Powerful Social Determinant of Health. Journal of Urban Health, 100, 870–877. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00765-4
• Duque, E., Salceda, M., Campdepadrós-Cullell, R., Merodio, G., & Puigvert-Mallart, L. (2023). Consent? At the Start, You Do Not Even Think About It. Coercive Discourse in the Awakening of Affective–Sexual Relationships in Young Women. Young, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/11033088231198600

Explanation of the Post

There is a niche capital, which has been called predatory capital, that benefits from women choosing violent boys. At that time, this predatory capital promoted many women to smoke, believing it to be sexy and thus damaging their health. This same capital, furthermore, planned how to get the money that young people started to earn from their first wages and give to their parents. It was imposed on young people to participate in a nightlife that included giving their money to nightclubs where they consumed alcoholic drinks. In this sense, this niche found that what motivated young people to participate in this type of nightlife was that it made them feel attractive because they could flirt with someone with whom to hook up. This way they would fulfill the need to feel attractive and fit the norm. In the same way, similar to the case of smoking, advertising by predatory capital, encouraged many young people to develop a desire for disdainful hookups which they would find if they paid a nightclub ticket and drank a lot of alcohol among other things. In terms of socialization, these elements were seen as expressions of personal freedom, and those who did not want to have them as boring. Predatory capital has promoted for it various forms of double standards such as the ‘friend-zone vs. fuck-zone’ to try to impose on women to divide the most violent men into the ‘fuck-zone’ and the more egalitarian men into the ‘friend-zone’. Therefore, this predatory capital fostered a kind of nightlife industry linked to that double standard and that relies on girls choosing violent men for disdainful hook-ups. Girls would go to nightclubs willing to have disdainful hookups,Sappho y  where boys would pay to get it and others would benefit from it.

CICFEM. Congreso Internacional de Ciencia Feminismo y Masculinidades [International Conference of Science Feminism and Masculinities]

Other sources

• Flecha, R. (2022). The Dialogic Society: The sociology scientists and citizens like and use. Hipatia Press.
• https://eldiariofeminista.info/2024/06/13/friend-zone-fuck-zone-la-muy-carca-doble-moral/
• https://periodicoeducacion.info/2024/03/31/capital-depredador-y-relaciones-toxicas/