Harvey Milk once said, “Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard”, and in America today the LGBT community voices are being heard by society. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are being accepted more and more by the evolving society as well as the progressing government in the country. But there are still walls holding the LGBT community back from complete equality in America, and the rest of society. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, “sexual orientation”…
Is there a form of oppression and hate that heavily impacts straight people’s lives? In this essay, I will dispute how heterophobia isn’t a real issue that actively damages the straight community. Does heterophobia exist? Well, what does heterophobia mean? “Heterophobia” Is a term that the straight community has formulated to describe the prejudice and oppression the LGBT community enforces on them. Their idea of heterophobia is when their gay acquaintances display uneasiness or dislike towards…
In philosopher Iris Young’s Five Faces of Oppression, she discusses oppression, highlighting five different categories of it. Among these “five faces” are exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism and violence. Exploitation occurs when the energies and skills of one are expanded on and taken advantage of by another. Generally, these energies and skills are being exploited to increase one’s power, status or wealth. An example of exploitation that still persists today are…