The government as a social manager has significant decision-making authority, and different governments will more likely to adopt the policies that based on its culture. China may be easily misinterpreted as a conservative society, yet this is not the case. Li Yinle, who was the China’s leading advocate of freewheeling sexuality, announced that her partner of 17 years is a transgender man in her blog. (Jacobs, 2015, para. 4) This breaking news really shocked the whole country. People’s Daily, which is the Communist Party flagship news media, interviewed them and took a stand. It wrote on its microblog account saying “everyone is unique in some way, so let’s work to have society catch up with science” and “Respecting the choices of people like
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Soft violence refers to any non-physical violence, such as discrimination, verbal harassment, and inequity. Sexual minorities are paying less than the normal group of people with no surprise. According to a research, “the wage gap between straight men and gay men in the same occupations with similar education, training, exam scores, years of experience, and demographic characteristics ranges from 15-28%.” (Antecol, 2008) This is a kind of discrimination and unfair to the sex and gender minorities. It indicates that it’s a common soft violence exist in the society. People just can’t think outside the box.
In addition, sexual stigma has negative effect for sexual and gender minority people. Dr. Herek believe that there are many negative effects for the LGBT people who experience violence. Violence will increase victims’ mental pressure, and also create a subjective sense of threat. These will motivate them to engage in a variety of proactive behaviors to protect themselves from possible sexual stigma. It is reasonable, but losing opportunity to have normal social activities at the same time. They also less likely to look for social support.(Herek, …show more content…
However, the reality is not so well. According to a systematic analysis, less than 1 % of the members of congress were elected as openly gay, lesbian or bisexual. In addition. There are only 0.03% of the presidents of the institutions are LGBT, which are the statistic from 2774 colleges and universities. (Zweigenhaft, 2006) Professor Zweiganhaft and Domhoff, who wrote the book Diversity in the Power Elite: How It Happened, Why It Matters, believe that “While America’s institutions of power often do not reflect the diversity of the American population, few groups have been more systematically excluded from the echelons of power than sexual minorities. Whether by law or policy, open discrimination or neglect, lesbians and gay men rarely make it into the power elites.” (Zweigenhaft, 2006) This is a really huge obstacle for sexual and gender minority to
Soft violence refers to any non-physical violence, such as discrimination, verbal harassment, and inequity. Sexual minorities are paying less than the normal group of people with no surprise. According to a research, “the wage gap between straight men and gay men in the same occupations with similar education, training, exam scores, years of experience, and demographic characteristics ranges from 15-28%.” (Antecol, 2008) This is a kind of discrimination and unfair to the sex and gender minorities. It indicates that it’s a common soft violence exist in the society. People just can’t think outside the box.
In addition, sexual stigma has negative effect for sexual and gender minority people. Dr. Herek believe that there are many negative effects for the LGBT people who experience violence. Violence will increase victims’ mental pressure, and also create a subjective sense of threat. These will motivate them to engage in a variety of proactive behaviors to protect themselves from possible sexual stigma. It is reasonable, but losing opportunity to have normal social activities at the same time. They also less likely to look for social support.(Herek, …show more content…
However, the reality is not so well. According to a systematic analysis, less than 1 % of the members of congress were elected as openly gay, lesbian or bisexual. In addition. There are only 0.03% of the presidents of the institutions are LGBT, which are the statistic from 2774 colleges and universities. (Zweigenhaft, 2006) Professor Zweiganhaft and Domhoff, who wrote the book Diversity in the Power Elite: How It Happened, Why It Matters, believe that “While America’s institutions of power often do not reflect the diversity of the American population, few groups have been more systematically excluded from the echelons of power than sexual minorities. Whether by law or policy, open discrimination or neglect, lesbians and gay men rarely make it into the power elites.” (Zweigenhaft, 2006) This is a really huge obstacle for sexual and gender minority to