The word ‘Queer’ particularizes members of gender and sexual minorities who are not heteronormative , heterosexual nor gender-binary. These individuals live their lives outside of socially conventional heteronormative constructs that dictate ones actions and dress code in accordance to his or her accredited gender (Nolan 2013:1). Someone who is recognized as queer is born with a biological sex, either intersexed, male, or female; however it is possible that such an individual might not identify him/herself with the socially assigned gender or stereotype attached to their biological sex (Lloyd, M 1999: 198). An individual may also purposely commit oneself to an identity where the gender is unlike the gender socially attached to their biological
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As an example I shall bring into discussion the division between public bathrooms. Say for instance a man unknowingly or knowingly walks into the ‘women labeled’ bathroom. It is likely that this man will be told to remove himself from the room and direct himself to the male assigned bathroom. Thus he is questioned about his presence within the wrong bathroom. The existence of specific bathrooms for different sexes is in itself a clear indication of a gender binary system that we live by (2013: 28)
Queer theory is an exclusive attempt to destabilize hegemonic social discourse and categories that create identities with social constructs and ideologies (Hatzfeldt 2011). What is labeled queer is the certitude by which we identify things abnormal or normal (Weinberg 1996: 11). The humane nature of people will always make them feel a compulsion to identify and categorize others and themselves in an attempt to understand each persons purpose, duty and role within a society (Nolan 2013:
As an example I shall bring into discussion the division between public bathrooms. Say for instance a man unknowingly or knowingly walks into the ‘women labeled’ bathroom. It is likely that this man will be told to remove himself from the room and direct himself to the male assigned bathroom. Thus he is questioned about his presence within the wrong bathroom. The existence of specific bathrooms for different sexes is in itself a clear indication of a gender binary system that we live by (2013: 28)
Queer theory is an exclusive attempt to destabilize hegemonic social discourse and categories that create identities with social constructs and ideologies (Hatzfeldt 2011). What is labeled queer is the certitude by which we identify things abnormal or normal (Weinberg 1996: 11). The humane nature of people will always make them feel a compulsion to identify and categorize others and themselves in an attempt to understand each persons purpose, duty and role within a society (Nolan 2013: