Queer theory looks at and criticizes all topics that fall into categorizing as normal or deviant, predominantly regarding sex and identity. The Oxford dictionary defines the word “queer” as “strange,” “odd,” and “often offensive.” Despite all the negative connotations attached to this word, the queer theory’s analyses reach beyond the surface level and examine many different kinds of behaviors. This theory adamantly insists that all assumptions linking sexual behaviors to identities, and thus creating a dichotomy between what is normal and what is divergent, are social constructs. An overlapping belief in the queer theory and feminism is that they both reject the idea that sexuality falls into an essentialist category. They do not believe that
