Most likely originated as a rhyming phrase: "trouble" - " Barney Rubble" and later shortened. a derogatory term, usually for an unkind male.See more words with the same meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate.See more words with the same meaning: British, UK slang (list of).( Barney Rubble is a character from the Flintstones cartoon.) We're gonna be in deep Barney. Citation from "Meat The Veals", Arrested Development (TV, 2005), Season 2 Episode 16 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site. Citation from "Charged", Reaper (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 2 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site. dominant masculinity ideology, which devalues men who are not heterosexually identified, many gay, bisexual and questioning (GBQ) adolescent males must develop their own affirming and health-promoting sense of masculinity.Citation from Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site. In order to promote the well-being of GBQ young men, exploration of their reactions and responses to dominant images of masculinity is needed. We qualitatively analyzed interviews with 39 GBQ African American, Latino, and European American male adolescents (15–23 years old). Participants reported a range of responses to traditional masculinity ideologies, most of which centered on balancing presentations of masculine and feminine characteristics.
Negotiation strategies served a variety of functions, including avoiding anti-gay violence, living up to expected images of masculinity, and creating unique images of personhood free of gender role expectations. These data suggest a complex picture of GBQ male adolescents’ management of masculinity expectations and serve as a basis for culturally and developmentally specific HIV prevention programs. “I just think, I just think that they're a standard, they're just things that we were raised up with and we just have to fight them.
We don't have to live with them.” (Gilbert, 17 yr. This quote from a study participant reflects the tenuous position through which many young gay, bisexual, and questioning (GBQ) males must navigate. With constant challenges to their claims of authentic maleness due to their sexual orientation, they struggle to simultaneously develop strategies to negotiate dominant messages about masculinity that are difficult to change while also asserting a sense of self that resists those dominant messages. It is in the context of a dominant masculinity ideology, which opposes or devalues non-heterosexually identified men, that many young GBQ males must develop resilience and wellness. Facilitating overall wellness and health through interventions and community action among GBQ male adolescents requires an examination of the responses of these young men to the dominant images of masculinity, as gender and gender expression have been identified as core contextual constructs that impact health promotion efforts ( Courtenay, 2000), particularly HIV prevention ( Diaz, 1998 DiClemente & Wingood, 1995). This paper describes a qualitative investigation of how a sample of African American, Latino and European American GBQ male adolescents construct masculinity and the strategies they use to navigate their own and society’s masculinity ideologies. Young men who have sex with men are considered to be at high risk for HIV infection because the largest proportion of males between the ages of 13–24 living with HIV and AIDS contracted the virus through male-to-male transmission ( CDC, 2006 Garofalo & Harper, 2003).