Modern musings about society heavily question the unquestioned.
Heteronormativity is naturalization of hetero/homo binary thinking about sexual attraction that privileges an investment in ‘straightness’, or how gender normativity is understood in Western contexts. It’s important to distinguish that this investment in straightness is characterized by heterosexual culture rather than heterosexual physical activity (Ingraham 209). It also is perpetuated as a social order and institution in American society since heteronormativity possesses material influence in relation to the distribution of and the accessibility to economic, cultural, and social resources (Ingraham 204). The dominance of heteronormativity facilitates protection for those whom assimilate into its culture of binary masculinity and femininity; yet, it also necessitates a disruption of such a status quo, seen in the development of queer theory -- queer embodying identities incompatible with heterosexuality, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender; and, theory critiquing connections …show more content…
So, in the characterization of heterosexual masculinity, performance of hegemonic masculinity, which deliberately pushes away from homosexuality, is vital. Pascoe’s faggot discourse embodies such a supplementary relationship. In her famous 2007 ethnographic study “Dude, You 're a Fag”, Pascoe tries to make sense of why and how ‘faggot discourse’ is being used among teenage boys in California high schools (Ward 117). She ultimately discovers that constant banter about being a ‘fag’ served as a mechanism for the boys to develop a sense of masculinity; that these boys performed an degradation of gay identity -- regardless if allies for LGBTQIA+ rights -- in order to affirmingly showcase their investment in heterosexual culture
Heteronormativity is naturalization of hetero/homo binary thinking about sexual attraction that privileges an investment in ‘straightness’, or how gender normativity is understood in Western contexts. It’s important to distinguish that this investment in straightness is characterized by heterosexual culture rather than heterosexual physical activity (Ingraham 209). It also is perpetuated as a social order and institution in American society since heteronormativity possesses material influence in relation to the distribution of and the accessibility to economic, cultural, and social resources (Ingraham 204). The dominance of heteronormativity facilitates protection for those whom assimilate into its culture of binary masculinity and femininity; yet, it also necessitates a disruption of such a status quo, seen in the development of queer theory -- queer embodying identities incompatible with heterosexuality, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender; and, theory critiquing connections …show more content…
So, in the characterization of heterosexual masculinity, performance of hegemonic masculinity, which deliberately pushes away from homosexuality, is vital. Pascoe’s faggot discourse embodies such a supplementary relationship. In her famous 2007 ethnographic study “Dude, You 're a Fag”, Pascoe tries to make sense of why and how ‘faggot discourse’ is being used among teenage boys in California high schools (Ward 117). She ultimately discovers that constant banter about being a ‘fag’ served as a mechanism for the boys to develop a sense of masculinity; that these boys performed an degradation of gay identity -- regardless if allies for LGBTQIA+ rights -- in order to affirmingly showcase their investment in heterosexual culture