2019年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)
大流行
人类性学
2019-20冠状病毒爆发
严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2型(SARS-CoV-2)
性别研究
历史
社会学
病毒学
医学
内科学
疾病
爆发
传染病(医学专业)
作者
Julian M. Groves,Wendy Ka Yin Lee,Hayley Wing Kiu Yiu
标识
DOI:10.1177/01634437241254753
摘要
Why did certain COVID-19 infections in Hong Kong attract more media scrutiny than others during the pandemic? We systematically compare media and social media responses to different clusters of infection that emerged during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Susan Sontag’s (2009) essay, Illness as Metaphor, we argue that the media preoccupation with Hong Kong’s Fourth Wave COVID-19 infections was not so much concerned with the science and epidemiology of the virus, but instead resonated with deeply held anxieties about gender, aging, and sexuality in the city. Specifically, we describe how women who attended ballroom dance studios during this outbreak were targeted by mainstream and social media for transgressing traditional gender roles: abandoning their husbands and purchasing intimacy with younger and less wealthy male dance instructors. We explore the implications of this “gendering” (and its intersections with social class and ageism) for health communication and public policy in the way that it disproportionately attributed blame for the outbreak on the women and denigrated an important recreation in the city.
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