Week 11 - Homophobia and Its Implications

Question 1

intersectionality

Answer 1

theory that social identities, related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination, and multiple group identities intersect to create a whole that is different from the component identities.

Question 2

what inspired the wear pink campaign?

Answer 2

organized school-wide response from two grade 12 boys who saw a kid get bullied for wearing pink

Question 3

threats of violence against homosexuals?

Answer 3

mechanisms of gendered socialization

-to instill normative masculinity

Question 4

discourse

Answer 4

practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak

Question 5

how to consider bullying for social subjects?

Answer 5

• instructive to social subjects

- constructive of social subjects

Question 6

how was the pink shirt campaign framed by the news?

Answer 6

good kids doing good things

Question 7

social constructionist view on gender

Answer 7

• interactional

- constructed

Question 8

unremarkability

Answer 8

encouraged set of silences

Question 9

hegemonic masculinity

Answer 9

practice that legitimizes men’s dominant position in society and justifies the subordination of women, and other marginalized ways of being a man.

Question 10

how has cultural understandings of women grown more liberal?

Answer 10

gaining status politically and socially

Question 11

gender policing

Answer 11

ritualistic process that occurs among adolescent males -calling someone faggy for certain things associated with gay males (lisp, bent wrists)

Question 12

fag discourse

Answer 12

specifically homophobic constitution of us versus them (the fags)

Question 13

how can the term fag be applied in more menacing spirit by bullies?

Answer 13

To claim and perform masculine social authority at the expense of particular vulnerable ‘others’