As Kinsey points out (in regards to sexuality), “the world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things black nor all things white” (Kinsey, 1948). Kinsey’s revolutionary scale, as pointed out by Diamond (2008, p. 256), has been massively taken out of context and been divided into rigid “gay/lesbian, straight, and bisexual” categories. Despite Kinsey’s attempt to be anticategorical, we as a society seem to constrict ourselves to categories regardless. I speculate that this because it’s easier to wrap our heads around something if its under a strict category, rather than loosely “unlabeled”. We have subconsciously (or perhaps even consciously) divided ourselves in goats and sheep, and bound ourselves to strictly black and white
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The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects…”
If Kinsey, a man living in the early twentieth century is this progressive, then I think it’s time we catch up. However, while women experience oppression in regards to other human rights, we are privileged in that it is more socially accepted for us to identify as sexually fluid. Along with that, there is a privilege within respective categories of the community; for example, there is still a massive issue with trans visibility, asexual erasure, etc. Jeff Thomas demonstrated this issue in class with the relative privilege chart they drew: big L, big G, smaller B, small T, and even smaller Q. I want to acknowledge this problem, but I am going to focus on women’s sexual privilege as that is personally …show more content…
9). Sexual fluidity is really only accepted in the female gender, whereas males are generally viewed as strictly straight or strictly gay, but not fluid. This, perhaps, is because women generally share more intimate relationships with each other and more comfortable with physical elements of a friendship (for instance, hugging), whereas men face a stigma around intimate friendships and often feel the need to let the others no “no homo” after engaging in anything remotely physical or emotional with their friends. This is something I’ve observed from middle school, onward. The social stigma around sexual fluidity has created a gendered binary, and has really only been associated with women, due to the fact that women are (generally) more outright intimate in their same-sex friendships. I, an unlabeled/heteroflexible woman, carry a certain privilege on the premises of my gender because of this gender
The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects…”
If Kinsey, a man living in the early twentieth century is this progressive, then I think it’s time we catch up. However, while women experience oppression in regards to other human rights, we are privileged in that it is more socially accepted for us to identify as sexually fluid. Along with that, there is a privilege within respective categories of the community; for example, there is still a massive issue with trans visibility, asexual erasure, etc. Jeff Thomas demonstrated this issue in class with the relative privilege chart they drew: big L, big G, smaller B, small T, and even smaller Q. I want to acknowledge this problem, but I am going to focus on women’s sexual privilege as that is personally …show more content…
9). Sexual fluidity is really only accepted in the female gender, whereas males are generally viewed as strictly straight or strictly gay, but not fluid. This, perhaps, is because women generally share more intimate relationships with each other and more comfortable with physical elements of a friendship (for instance, hugging), whereas men face a stigma around intimate friendships and often feel the need to let the others no “no homo” after engaging in anything remotely physical or emotional with their friends. This is something I’ve observed from middle school, onward. The social stigma around sexual fluidity has created a gendered binary, and has really only been associated with women, due to the fact that women are (generally) more outright intimate in their same-sex friendships. I, an unlabeled/heteroflexible woman, carry a certain privilege on the premises of my gender because of this gender