“Moreover, young urbanites identify downtown clusters of nightclubs as direct sexual marketplaces, or markets for singles seeking casual encounters with potential sex partners (Laumann et al. 2004).” Based upon the college male population, they rather do their “girl hunt” during the nightlife because they find more singles out at night. Statistics shows that both single male and female attends at least one nightlife entertainment venue such as restaurants, clubs, bars, lounges, etc. “In this article I examine girl hunting—a practice whereby adolescent heterosexual men aggressively seek female sexual partners in nightclubs, bars, and other public arenas of commercialized entertainment.” David Grazian’s article entitled The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity, talks about how and why men go out to nightclubs and try and pick up girls. Heterosexual males strategizes their masculinity performance to impress both male and females, as a result, it rises their confidence. The article is reviewed in the context of supporting identity, gender and sexuality, and symbolic interactions.
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“According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, masculinity represents a range of dramaturgical performances individuals exhibit through face-to-face interaction (Goffman 1959, 1977; West and Zimmerman 1987)” Symbolic interactionism is when one attempts to understand society and social structure through an examination of the micro level interactions of people as individuals, pair, or groups. Before the “girl hunt”, the males would talk about how they would drink, tell stories and what they would wear to attract females. They did and say thing that would boost them up, so they would be noticed or stand out from the rest. Those things were symbolic things that they thought would capture the female eyes for a successful “girl