Heterosexism

How can lifestyle changes affect chronic disease management? What are some factors that play into the fact that it is easier for some women to make lifestyle changes than others? “Lifestyle changes are often the first step in preventing the development of chronic conditions or in slowing their progression” (Alexander). The main key components to help with a healthy lifestyle are a healthy diet, regular exercise and avoidance of harmful substances, like smoking. Another big aspect is knowledge.…

Patricia Jung, author of Heterosexism, claims that many of the passages that talk about the wrongdoing of homosexuality are actually about rape and prostitution. The passage from Leviticus 18:22 can be interpreted as a male prostitution (Jung 71). The translation of the Bible form…

“Although the word power would definitely be controversial, a lot of work in feminist theory is devoted to the tasks of critiquing women's subordination, analyzing the intersections between sexism and other forms of subordination such as racism, heterosexism, and class oppression, and envisioning the possibilities for both individual and collective resistance to such subordination.” (Stanford University, Plato Stanford EDU) The concept of power is central to each of these theoretical tasks;…

spirited with their sexuality. Needless to say sex and intimacy never seemed to quite intersect because the depictions of sex were always recreational from my perspective. The common theme that I was exposed to through all of these sources was that heterosexism was the norm. We were not to talk about homosexuality except in an educational setting. I learned that no matter how well one school attempts to be comprehensive with sex-education, the social media, high school peers, and parents may…

is expected to advance theological contemplation on mothering, which has been under-theorized in religious studies. The struggles of Korean Christian mothers are one of the starkest exemplars in which oppressions from patriarchy, hierarchy, and heterosexism are explicitly found. Their everyday lives are unimaginably busy, filled with social activities and work-duties along with total responsibilities on children, husband, and extended families with house chores. In such context with Confucian…

of prisoners suffer sexual violence under our prison system; in many times, they have no idea to stop it. From the book, we find that the sexual violence of prison guard is routine to happen in jail, and it is always infused with racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism and transphobia. There are several prisoners that suffer the sexual violence mentioned in the book. For example, Jake Donaghy is transgender and he writes to the author about the ways that prison guards manipulate bodies into deeper…

Imitation and Transformation On a regular weekday, I was in class listening to a group of women presenting on some topic I couldn’t recall. After their presentation, the instructor, also a woman, told the presenters to stop “uptalking” in the future because their speech pattern can make them sound high-pitched, unconfident, and unprofessional. The class, including myself, silently accepted the instructor’s advice; however, I thought the instructor was trying to tell presenters that they need to…

Wahneema Lubiano contests Spike Lee’s extensive acclaim by assessing his hegemonic effect on depictions of African American culture; she cites the importance of a comparative base and how the lack of qualifying alternatives to Lee’s “reality” render a declaration of reality “reductionist” (100). When reality is continuously based on one representation and established by a “consensus of a particular group,” it withstands simply due to the “absence of existing alternatives” (104). Because Lee’s…

to be effective allies for the LGBTQ community (Evans & Washington, 2013). Subsequently, the participation of heterosexuals within GSAs heightens awareness of LGBTQ issues (Klotz, 2014). Moreover, in GSAs, students challenge the societal norm of heterosexism, which alienates the LGBTQ community, and GSAs educate others on the negative effects of homophobia and transphobia suffered by the LGBTQ community (Kassen & LaPointe,…

In my lifetime, I have experienced several Isms. I have been a victim of heterosexism, and a perpetrator as well as a bystander for racism. I have seen several more than what I talk about, but these three events were the ones that stood out the most and affected me more personally. Growing up, my mother would tell me homosexuality, that included anything to do with LGBT, was wrong and that I had to be a Christian. I never really believed in god and I felt like I couldn't tell my mom, she…