What Are Homosexualities Of Masculinity Or Homophobia?

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“I think we won't be able to understand the operations of transphobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality”( Judith Butler). Judith Butler, an American Philosopher and Gender Theorist, explains that in society most people believe it is problematic if one displays both stereotypical qualities of masculinity and femininity because these qualities do not fit the category society put you in. Ideas about gender and sexuality are embedded into people’s brain at a young age and this is continued with the use of media, social structural

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