Heteronormativity

Part B Duncan, N. (2004). It's Important To Be Nice, But It's Nicer To Be Important: Girls, Popularity And Sexual Competition. Sex Education, 4(2), 137-152. 1. Duncan looks at relationships between girls, friendships and bullying in the tenth grade. He is looking for common traits, as well as points of tension between “popular” girls and cliques in high school. 2. Through his study, Duncan found that popular girls were almost always classified as confident, popular with boys and fashionable.…

Since its inception in 1967, the Super Bowl has amassed millions of viewers in the United States and across the globe. Friends and families gather around television screens at homes, in bars and restaurants, and just about anywhere else one can be placed, to watch the big game, the halftime show, and the commercials. Fifty years later, the trend continues, with over 111 million U.S. viewers watching the game live on television in February 2016. (Nielsen, 2016) This number does not include…

broadened to break down concepts of gender, sexuality, and the body (Rampton). Queer Theorists such as Judith Butler branched from this new movement in Women’s Studies to examine the reality of identity and attack the problematic perception of heteronormativity, the belief that humans are normally heterosexual and distinctly male or female. In The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon challenges the traditional perception of a gender binary through the protagonist, Oedipa Maas, who represents the…

It’s no doubt that people are born with traits, ethnicity and gender. But can someone be born gay? In other words is being born gay heterozygous? Although there isn’t an exact definition of being born gay, in this case, it can be defined as being born with a homosexual gene or trait. Most lesbians, gays, and transsexuals (LGBT’s) argue that they were born gay. Others argue that being born gay is not heterozygous. With the biological evidence, we can truly determine whether it’s true or not.…

Further studying the nuances of linguistics within male-male relationships, Dustin Bradley Goltz appraised the intergenerational value shifts and the archetypal roles of older and younger gay men in a communicative workshop that produced both group discussion and personalized writings. In “‘We’re Not in Oz Anymore’: Shifting Generational Perspectives and Tensions of Gay Community, Identity, and Future,” Goltz investigates the accepted narratives and power dynamics that present themselves in…

Do you want to become a feminist? Before you answer that inquiry, it is imperative that you first understand what that really entails. Any mention of feminism may bring about a groan of annoyance from some. The movement provides a great amount of controversy in this day and age, largely because its message is often misconstrued or altogether wrongly portrayed. Media sources tend to focus on the negative aspects of feminism without taking into consideration what beliefs and ideals it actually…

I think that overall in more educated schools and school systems have progressed into a new era of sexual education that attempts in most cases to include the entire spectrum of sexuality rather than just that of heteronormativity. I believe that the article” In defense of danger: Sex, schools and the politics of discourse” is a great illustration of this. A town rallies around their school performing a school sponsored rendition of the stage play “Vagina Monologues” and…

Tinder encounters its first difficulty when you look at the distribution of sex in the Downtown area. While it is problematic to assume heteronormativity, there is 4865 more men than there is women, about an eleven percent difference. Knowing this, Tinder’s algorithms can be modified to show mem matches from further away to compensate for the lack of women. Tinder is used most by people between…

Society often dictates how individuals view themselves and others. Individuals who deviate from what is considered the norm are often ostracized for their irregularities. Identity is the characteristic of determining who or what a person is. Society questions these abnormal traits as if they are temporary, however, they are innate and therefore, cannot be changed. Cathy Davidson’s, Project Classroom Makeover, talks about how hierarchies have created a broken education system whose educational…

relationships, and morals, and they do so unforgivingly. The relationship between Tammy Warren and Lisa Flanagan is torn at the seams when secrets about their possible sexuality come to light. Tammy is a teenage girl who rejects the idea of heteronormativity before it is deemed acceptable. It is not long…