This article is about claiming and making visible that third space that has been silenced and historically received hatred and even stated to not exist. I think the main issue that was touched upon in the article was our binary way of thinking and language. Most human beings tend to think in a dual state of mind; man or woman, gay or lesbian, heterosexual and homosexual. Humans have to choose between being one or the other, not both, not neither, but just strictly one side. And this is when those who may not “fit” into a category get marginalized and criticized.
Introducction to Sociology December 10, 2013. Heterosexual Privilege: Unpacking the invisible Purse or it is Wallet? “I was taught to see transexuality only in individual acts of prejudice, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” Thinking through unacknowledged heterosexual privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there is most likely a phenomenon of heterosexual privilege that is denied and protected. As a heterosexual person, I’ve come to acknowledge my upbringing as something that puts others (transsexuals) at a disadvantage. Yet, this same upbringing blinded me to the inherent social disadvantage experienced by transsexuals.
In significant part this reads as a tendentious attack on recent Supreme Court jurisprudence. One particularly unfair portion of it is devoted to a discussion of the 2001 LAWRENCE decision which struck down a Texas law (and similar laws in other states) criminalizing private, consensual homosexual conduct between adults. Nagel’s discussion does not even address the Court’s argument that this law presented an unconscionable coercive intrusion by the state into the most intimate of relationships or Justice O’Connor’s argument that it had a severely disproportionate impact on a small and insular portion of the population (gays and lesbians). Instead, and quite erroneously, the law is presented as having been about “protect[ing] . .
(18) * Indeed, the term “queer” itself has been precisely the the discursive rallying point for younger lesbians and gay men and, in yet other contexts, for lesbian interventions and, in yet other contexts, for bisexuals and straights for whom the term expresses an affiliation with anti-homophobic politics. The term “Queer” will be revised, dispelled, rendered obsolete to the extent that it yields to the demands which resist the term precisely because of the exclusions by which it is mobilized. (21) * Gender Performativity and Drag: * Gender norms operate by requiring the embodiment of certain ideals of femininity and masculinity, ones which are almost always related to the idealization of the heterosexual bond. (22) * Melancholia: Drag is allegorized to heterosexual melancholy, the melancholy by which a masculine gender (feminine gender) is formed from the refusal to grieve the masculine (feminine) as a possibility of love. (25) * Drag: is the “normal” constitution of gender presentation in which the gender performed is in many ways constituted by a set of disavowed attachments or identifications that constitute a different domain of the “unperformable.” Indeed, it
Heterosexuality: It’s Just Not Natural! Chrys Ingraham’s Heterosexuality: It’s Just Not Natural! article title, though it may seem backward or mistaken, is accurate in summation to what the article disputes. In this article, Ingraham argues that though heterosexuality is socially considered the norm or standard sexual orientation, it is simply an “arrangement” and a “social institution” (Ingraham 100), the concept of which termed “heteronormativity” by Michael Warner (qtd. in Ingraham101).
In my research I found a lot of things that left me astonished and eager to know more about homophobic behaviour. One of the facts is that “most” homophobic individuals are unconsciously homosexual. The human mind is made out of three different levels of consciousness. CONSCIOUSNESS: When we look at the conscious level of the mind, we looking at the things that the person is aware of. Before an individual can act or say anything, they are very much aware of what they will say or do.
Samuel Junior Moses Dr. John Frongillo Writing in literature Com 1102 04/23/2015 The Prevalence of Stereotyping Stereotyping is an overly simplified attitude people hold towards another person due to race, gender or ethnicity. Stereotyping affects us by allowing us to see what we expect to see, and we have a tendency to twist and distort the characteristics of others until it fits our ideas of a particular group stereotype. Sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, and physical ability are various categories which exist in stereotyping. The most prevalent and controversial forms are sex and race. In the story the “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” by Junot Diaz, the narrator stereotypes girls base on gender,
However it is the foundation of debates regarding the moral status of a large number of sexual acts – the latent stigma still attached to homosexuality is a prime example of the influence of the theological standpoint on sexual desires. Despite retaining some influence on the way we think about certain sexual practices the traditional theist conception of sexual desires is often widely ignored in modern times. A primary objection to the viewpoint is that it is an almost empirically observable fact that sexual desires do not necessarily aim at procreation. The massive use of contraceptives throughout the modern world is evidence
– A good introduction and link to the title When investigating about homosexuals, some people try to understand by looking for what may be the cause of their sexuality. A group of scientists in 2012 suggested that homosexuality is passed down through the generations from mother to son and from father to daughter leading American scientists to suggest that homosexuality is an epigenetic link and not a genetic one. Epigenetics explains how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches (epi-marks) which are attached to the backbones that determine their effect on our development. Sigmund Freud claims that homosexuality is a personality disorder and a result from the person failure to deal with repressed infancy and traced the causes back to the parent-child relationship. This is supported by Elizabeth Moberly who said “a homosexual orientation does not depend on a genetic predisposition, hormonal imbalance, or abnormal learning processes but on difficulties in the parent-child relationship”.
To the contrary, the amendment imposes a special disability on those persons alone. Homosexuals are forbidden the safeguards that others enjoy or may seek without constraint" (J.A Kennedy,2009) The truth is, I think it is sick that here in the United States, gay marriage is not a federally protected right. This is bigotry, pure and simple, and it needs to stop. Denying two women or two men the right to marry is as cruel and absurd as it was to deny two straight people of different races the right to marry. Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't the Constitution of the United States guarantee everyone the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?