Gaga Feminism Chapter Summary

The trouble with normal is just as it sounds. It’s the idea of going against the status quo in order to express yourself and not care about what others think. I’ll speak briefly on this since our pop culture unit was the most recent, and because we spent so long on the trouble with normal. Way back when, when we read the article what’s wrong Michael Warner explains how normalcy or the idea of being normal was troublesome to many homosexuals during the late twentieth early twenty first century. He explains to us the difference between stigmaphilic and stigmaphobic homosexuals when he mentions that “The stigmaphile space is where we find a commonality with those who suffer from stigma, and in this alternative realm learn to value the very things …show more content…
We wanted the attention and to be known as exactly what we were, different. That is the trouble with normalcy¬ the fact that it erases difference. Moving on though, now I know many of us growing up wanted to get married or at least had the preconceived notion that we would at some point end up married. Halberstein goes on to tell us exactly why that notion of marriage should be challenged. If you remember the chapter from Halbersteins book Gaga Feminism about gay marriage and his utter distain for it then you’ll remember the idea of rejecting not only the normal but pop culture as well. Halberstein goes on to explain how marriage is a repressive system that actually is a waste of time to fight for when there’s better uses of queer activists energy. He rejects the idea of queer marriage because with the inclusion of it we also lose something miraculous about being outside of the norm. That’s the trouble with normal, that in order to be normal you must give up part of what made you queer and different to begin with. Moving on, next we shall discuss one of my favorite topics, the social constructionists approach to gender, sexuality and