She proceeded to look for the definition and realized that it was prejudice attitude towards homosexuals by heterosexuals. After gaining a better understanding of the term heterosexism, Chelsie explained that it was only a couple of weeks ago that she had experienced heterosexism. Chelsie stated that a male coworker described her as selfish person simply because he thought that she was only attracted to women. She therefore had to clarify to her coworker that she is attracted to both genders, and only then did he thought that Chelsie wasn’t a selfish person. According to Chelsie, this incident didn’t make her feel less than, but it did cause her to feel annoyed and disgusted. In addition, she spoke about how it made her realize that there are people in the world who are extremely ignorant when it comes to the LGBT community. She further explained that people still have antiquated notions about being anything other than straight and that it needs to be abandoned. Having these feelings surging throughout her body, Chelsie decided that she would enlightened her coworker about her sexuality and the LGBT community, and that she
She proceeded to look for the definition and realized that it was prejudice attitude towards homosexuals by heterosexuals. After gaining a better understanding of the term heterosexism, Chelsie explained that it was only a couple of weeks ago that she had experienced heterosexism. Chelsie stated that a male coworker described her as selfish person simply because he thought that she was only attracted to women. She therefore had to clarify to her coworker that she is attracted to both genders, and only then did he thought that Chelsie wasn’t a selfish person. According to Chelsie, this incident didn’t make her feel less than, but it did cause her to feel annoyed and disgusted. In addition, she spoke about how it made her realize that there are people in the world who are extremely ignorant when it comes to the LGBT community. She further explained that people still have antiquated notions about being anything other than straight and that it needs to be abandoned. Having these feelings surging throughout her body, Chelsie decided that she would enlightened her coworker about her sexuality and the LGBT community, and that she