This idea of passing and erasure doesn 't only apply to issues of gender identity, as an Asexual I have the argument of whether or not I belong in Queer or Straight Culture, hint it 's not Straight culture, on a daily basis because “Asexuals are practically straight” or “Asexuals are straight passing” (Anonymous Individual, 2016). The idea of straight passing, when I say passing I mean for all intents and purposes if someone passed me on the street they would have no doubt that I am straight unless I was obviously with a partner of mine. This idea has been used to put down Asexuals, Pansexuals, and Bisexuals, as well insinuating that whenever they are dating someone who is deemed opposite of their perceived gender identity, that they are straight
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This binary enforcing is used the Fag Discourse to police masculinity that Pascoe brings up in Dude You 're A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, “A boy could get called a fag for exhibiting any sort of behavior defined as unmasculine (although not necessarily behaviors aligned with femininity)” (Pascoe, 2007, P. 57). This binary enforcing is also used in male focused groups like fraternities to reinforce Heteronormativity by labeling what is perceived to be gay behavior as demeaning or embarrassing, with rituals like the Elephant Walk, often a hazing ritual in which participants “were required to strip naked and stand in a circular formation, with one thumb in their mouth and the other in the anus of the young, typically white, man in front of them. Like circus elephants connected by tail and trunk, and ogled by human spectators, they walked slowly in a circle, linked thumb to anus” (Ward, 2015, P. 1-2). Ward considers this behavior to be the construction of “heteronormative homosexualities” (Ward, 2015, P. 45), and goes on to investigate what effect this construction of what is considered to be homosexual acts has on the larger discourse of sexual fluidity. Sexual Fluidity is also being affected by society growing to be a more Homonormative culture, culture in where homosexuality is normalized, Ward …show more content…
Transgressing these limits on our ideas of what a gender or sexual orientation can be are essential to expanding as an individual, as a community, and as a society. Ward refers to the idea of re-centering what sex acts mean, especially in reference to whether they are Homosexual or Heterosexual, and who has the right to define that, if anyone. I believe we can apply this idea to not only our ideas of sex and sexuality, but to how we think of gender, in re-centering what gendered acts mean, especially in reference to whether they are for a man or a woman, and who has the right to define that, if
This binary enforcing is used the Fag Discourse to police masculinity that Pascoe brings up in Dude You 're A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, “A boy could get called a fag for exhibiting any sort of behavior defined as unmasculine (although not necessarily behaviors aligned with femininity)” (Pascoe, 2007, P. 57). This binary enforcing is also used in male focused groups like fraternities to reinforce Heteronormativity by labeling what is perceived to be gay behavior as demeaning or embarrassing, with rituals like the Elephant Walk, often a hazing ritual in which participants “were required to strip naked and stand in a circular formation, with one thumb in their mouth and the other in the anus of the young, typically white, man in front of them. Like circus elephants connected by tail and trunk, and ogled by human spectators, they walked slowly in a circle, linked thumb to anus” (Ward, 2015, P. 1-2). Ward considers this behavior to be the construction of “heteronormative homosexualities” (Ward, 2015, P. 45), and goes on to investigate what effect this construction of what is considered to be homosexual acts has on the larger discourse of sexual fluidity. Sexual Fluidity is also being affected by society growing to be a more Homonormative culture, culture in where homosexuality is normalized, Ward …show more content…
Transgressing these limits on our ideas of what a gender or sexual orientation can be are essential to expanding as an individual, as a community, and as a society. Ward refers to the idea of re-centering what sex acts mean, especially in reference to whether they are Homosexual or Heterosexual, and who has the right to define that, if anyone. I believe we can apply this idea to not only our ideas of sex and sexuality, but to how we think of gender, in re-centering what gendered acts mean, especially in reference to whether they are for a man or a woman, and who has the right to define that, if