Mohr The Case Of Outing Analysis

The LGBTQIA+ community faces many challenges in today’s society. One major challenge that the community must conquer is being outed as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, pansexual, or other aspects of the community. However, is this a challenge that the community really has to conquer? Richard D. Mohr, writer of The Case of Outing, explores this topic and why members of the LGBTQIA+ community should out other members of the community. To give context to this subject, there are two concepts that need to be defined. The first is “the closet”. The concept of “the closet” is difficult to define sometimes. “The closet” is the action of hiding one’s sexual orientation or gender identity. For many members of the LGBTQIA+ community, coming …show more content…
His first argument is that living in the closet is far worse than being out of said closet. He says that being in the closet can cause a homosexual person to view themselves in an abject way and can cause self loathing, homophobic loathing, and aggression (Mohr 189). Even more so, he brings up an interesting societal view of the LGBTQIA+ community. Mohr claims living in the closet “promotes hypocrisy, requires lies, sets snares, blames the victim when snared, and causes unhappiness”(Mohr 189), which aids in the level of abjection that the homosexual person feels for themselves and other homosexual people. His second argument consist of the notion that those who keep other’s secret of “being in the closet” lose a sense of their dignity. He claims that, “the closet’s secret is a dirty little secret that degrades all gay people”, meaning that those hold other’s gay secret view themselves without dignity or self-respect (Mohr 189). He argues that people of the LGBTQIA+ community who are public with their sexuality have a duty to let their seual orientation resent itself in conversations where it’s relevant. However, there are many problems that Mohr does not address with outing others’ …show more content…
It strips them of their sense of control and independence when a person outs them without their knowledge or their permission. Morh brings up vindictive outing and how politicians and other use it to get an upper hand on another. My question is who does this benefit? It does not benefit the person who is outed because their secret is being revealed. Despite the fact the person vindictively outed another, it does not benefit them either. If a person vindictively reveals another’s secret, would you knot look them in a different kind of light? You will see the person as untrustworthy, cruel, and