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A safe haven for gay men "The Bowery"

We are shown that gay men in the 1960’s were on the bowery because that was the place for male prostitution.These gay men were referred to as male degenerates which was used to offensively label then as a men who were considered immoral because they took part in sexual behavior that was viewed as unacceptable.The bowery was a safe haven for theses gay men because there were groups of them it provided a sense of comfort for these men.Male prostitution was popular in halls such as Paresis Hall, the Palm Club of Chrystie Street and Manilla Hall. I found this article to be very interesting because not only did you find gay men here but straight men who just happen to engage in homosexual relations were there, which means that a lot more people was engaging in this forbidden activity then people knew.Yet not only were these men discriminated against based on their sexual preference but they were even even dehumanized and thought to be less than a human.

Homosexual and Heterosexual

Katz discusses the origin of homosexual and heterosexual.The word homosexual first came about from a writer kertbeny to describe unnatural fornication.By the nineteenth century it became appropriate to label men as such.The word heterosexual was used to doctors to describe intimacy between men and women.Heterosexual used to mean inclination to both sexes not to recently was it connotative meaning a person who was attracted to the opposite sex.The terms heterosexual and homosexual was used to socially order gender and eroticism.these terms refer to groups identities and behavior.homosexual and heterosexual is another boundary for society to categorized and tell you how must act according to the category you fall in.

Male,Female or Transgender?

Abstinence

In the book Wannabes, Goths, and Christians by Amy C Wilkins a connection is shown between sexuality and religion amongst gender.A contrast is made between Christians and goths because we see that Christians are people of god there for they must be abstinent and respect that sex is only marriage.Whereas goths are more rebellious against the rules of society and just high power as a whole.We think of goths to be the complete opposite of Christians ,there more thought to being dark spirited,open sexually and edgy.The idea of abstinence is gender related because although according to Christians everyone should wait to marriage to have sex.Women are more shunned as oppose to men because according to society women are suppose to possess purity and cleanliness and if she is sexually adventurous,she no long is pure or clean.It is a bit more except able for men because in this double standard world we live in men aren’t held to the subjections denying the idea of promiscuity.

Household labour and the routine production of gender

This article was very interesting to me because you got to see the perspective of couples on sharing the responsibility of childcare and chores in the house.Originally housework was always viewed as a "Women's" job, so there was no discussion because that was just what women took care of and that was it. Surprisingly to me some of the fathers of which they interviewed was the one that was carrying out the role traditionally played by mothers.Where as in other families the fathers stated that the responsibility should be equally shared between both.This study was being observed to display the social conditions of gender roles among families and the interactions that took place in the house to show equal sharing of the responsibility.This study ended up showing that fathers can too play the role of the caregiver for the family and not because there is no one else to take his place but because he can accept the fact a father in a child's life is just as essential as his mother.Household labor confirms and transforms the meaning of gender and breaks the restrictions on the roles in which a specific gender set must carry out in society in order to be accepted.

Domesticating masculinity

This article discusses the fatherhood responsibility movement. By men being marginalized with family it creates the idea that men are feminine and carry out a feminine role. This movement establishes the need for a father in a child life and states there would be a change in the fact that families are female-headed.It is essential for a child to have a father role in the life to learn responsibility.A child requires a mother and father because there is certain guidance that a child must obtain from both that even though a child can be raise by a single parent,is best because it is impossible to get both sides if only raise by one parent.Fathers’ participation in child care has long been a feminist issue and is a growing concern in Western welfare state politics.Fatherhood deals with politics because both parent participation in a family environment effects everyone in the family and the people around them.The ongoing dilemma that it presented today is that playing the father role for the man takes away from their masculinity and makes them more like a women, and as a man that is the last thing that they want to do.

Dude your a Fag

"Dude you a Fag" focuses on the relationships between gender and sexuality mainly masculinity in social institutions such as high schools. Pascoe develops a research based on the masculinity of guys in high school. According to the author masculinity determines dominance among adolescent teenagers.During her studies as she visited schools she has found that there are multiple ways that boys act out in a masculine way, such as using the word fag. By using the word fag a boy portrays his heterosexuality and masculinity because by pointing out that another guy is a fag he is showing that there is something wrong with it and that shows that clearly he is not one.The word “fag’ is used to feminize another and given a male a homosexual status which in result makes him more masculine. According to Pascoe the word fag is both gendered and racial, this is so because boys use the term to described other boys more than girls.Her studies showed that white boys were more likely to use the call a boy a ‘fag’ than were African American boys. White boys were also more likely to be called ‘fag’, especially if these boys cared about their looks or engage in dance or drama. As oppose to African American boys who cared both about their appearance and engaged in dance and drama. Instead of African American boys calling other boys of their colors fag they called then white because that was seem more of an insult. In the African American culture dancing and hip hop culture was seen as essential and important.Other ways that guys would show their masculinity was to brag about sexual experience, appearing physically strong and manipulating or controlling girl’s bodies. This article really shows that part of being a guy is obtaining dominance and part of that is attacking other guys and portraying them as being effeminate and desexualizing woman to make you seem more manly.

Act-Like-A-Man box

Living in a society means that we must act in way that acceptable for our gender set.Act like a man box shows that not only women but men face oppression as well.Growing up boys are told to act like a man or toughen up.We assume that men dont have feelings because of the rules of society men arent allowed to show thier feelings.Acting like a man is like a box because anytime a man shows feelings or any sign of weakness he is constantly told to man up and stop being a wuss.He is pushed back into this box in which he must conform to if he wants to be accepted in society.Unfortunetly this is the realities in which we are surrounded by and you never really see as a problem until an enough amount of people say ok this is wrong.

MEN's CLUB

Welcome to the men's club displays the idea that men have no choice in their role in society. If you want to be accepted in society as man you must show emotional detachment, competitiveness and sexually objectify women. According To society men don't show emotion, they are not allowed to let others know they are sad and DO NOT CRY! This would be showing the ultimate sign of weakness. Secondly competitiveness, men show their manliness by competing with other men whether for jobs or women. If you are a man you are going to compete against other men and win. Along with being a man you must view women as sexual objects to show that you are superior to them. As a man you must never treat a woman as your equal but as an object.

This bridge Called My Back

This bridge called my back is a collection of different forms of writings such poems,letters and journal entries just to name a few written by third world women.Third world women were considered to be black women,Spanish women,Asian women, native american ,etc.These writings would reflect o the experiences that these women endured living in the United States as colored women.The intent of this bridge called my back was not only to show that women need to be treated equally to men but that colored went through these experiences too,not just white women.What was so different from many other feminist books is that not only did it tell stories from all different types of colored women you also heard from gay color women,who had a totally different story to tell.Many of these stories are so inspiring because they deal with so much from the inequality from the colored and white men as well as white women because although there fighting in the same issue white women always felt they were beneath them.these stories hold so much power that they show how strong they were to deal with all the oppression that came there way.

#opression #colored women #inequality #gender #race

''The Feminine Mystique''

This article truly amazed me because at one point woman actually aspired to just be a housewife.The rejected any idea of college or any school for that matter ,they wanted to just get married and have four to five children.Around the 1950s women dropped out of high school and and the ones who stayed only did to attend college to find a husband.Only a third of american woman were working, the others had aspirations of becoming married.Of the women who worked only a few were pursing careers.This era of women were taught to feel bad were women who were achieving degrees and pursuing careers because this was a life of an unhappy woman.A typical day for a women was to get up,make breakfast,take the kids to school,sew/launder, pick up the kids, make supper and wash the dishes .Then do it all again the next day.As I was reading this article all I can think was how bad I felt for these women,and sadly this was what they wanted.This was the dream, this was the golden life.Or was it?There was no question of superiority amongst the genders.To women of this decade,they did didn't feel inferior to there husbands because he would go out and make money to support the family while she stay home and did house work.In fact no one was better than the other men and women were just different. During the late fifty's gradually women started to feel a sort of dissatisfaction with there lives as housewives.As this epidemic started women and even men had no name for this feeling.It was something that as it started out was really embarrassing and most women were ashamed to talk about.In 1959 in the month of April a number of women who were both mothers and wives met for coffee and realized they all shared this ''no-name'' problem.Prior to this when women said they had problem it was with there husband,children or home.But now these women had a problem with a lack of individuality.Yes,women with wives and there were mothers but that just simply defined there role in society not who they were.If she brought up her unhappiness she was dismissed by being told how lucky she was to not to have to deal jobs and the problems of the world.Because this comment was majorly made by men,I felt they were really trying to saying this isn't something you can handle, stay at home. It was discovered that housewives were more tired then men and other women.They would sleep for up to ten hours.Housewives had a constant demand on the many tasks in which she had complete each day.Everything about her life was a routine.Doctors came to concluded that maybe this housewife fatigues was a bit of Boredom and sleep sometimes was the only escape.Many women of this time ,I'm sure just wish they had a choice.Once you got married you were bound to have kids right after and then any choice or dream you had during this time was gone.Unsurprisingly the studies show that the women ho decided to listen to there inner voice escape this bondage were much happier then the women who remain housewives.Regardless of what society might portray the majority of women want more than a husband,kids and a home.

#1950s #gender roles #dissatisfaction

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Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines[Feminist Parody] “Defined Lines”

Every bigot shut up!

''The Second Sex''

''The Second Sex'' displays human history from a feminine point of view.Through out the article we re faced with the question what is a women?To define a human being as a female is not enough to at that she is a woman.When a female define herself ,she States she is a woman.Unlike women a man never presents himself as a man it is already clear that he is a man.De Beauvoir's main point is to show how men oppress women by characterizing them and defined them more as what they are as oppose to who they are.The author States that while it is acceptable for humans to view themselves as opposition to one another, it is not when applied to gender because men define a woman's humanity defining them as other. According to De Beauvoir it is impossible to compare the character of men and women without consider the differences.She traces the female development through stages childhood,youth, and sexual initiation.Through this she explains that women aren't born feminine but are shapes by the external processes in which they go through.In every stage of upbringing she is condition to accept the down put in which she face.Society in this article and even in reality tries to deprives women and degrade her to nothing more than an object.

The Egg and Sperm

This article “The Egg and Sperm:How science constructed a romance based on stereotypical roles of male and female critiques the stereotypical language that is used to describe the roles of the egg and sperm. Whats interesting to me is that martin points out that biology textbooks describes an egg having more negative connotations,nwhere the sperm is viewed just the opposite, the sperm is praised for the role it plays.Throughout this article multiple times we see how women are look down upon because of her reproductive organs or system just as a whole.Women are portrayed as weak and dependent on men even through their sexual organs. In this article she talks about new finding of the egg playing a bigger role in fertilization, which portrays women as a ''aggressive threat”.According to society this isnt how women are suppose to be , there are suppose to be more submissive and contrite.Women should be gentle and not carry themselves in such a manner.A woman’s egg is viewed as a ”damsel in distress” because it waits for the sperm to save the it which is the role of a hero. As I read biology textbooks, I have realized this and never really took note of it,for the simple fact that I just thought that’s how it was.This idea displays hegemonic masculinity because it shows how men are superior to women due to patriarchy.The idea that the egg is pretty much useless and is reliant on the sperm is a stereotype that plays in the relationships between men and women in society.

"The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are not Enough,"

In the article, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are not Enough," Anne Fausto-Sterling argues why the two socially and medically accepted genders are not sufficient in identifying the genders of every individual of our society. In our society what we generally accept as being normal is the two sexes, male and female. At birth for the majority of the people in society females are identified as having a vagina and males are identified as having a penis.But what if it isn't that easy to distinguish? Even though those are the two most dominant genders known in our society, Anne Fausto-sterling argues that those don't satisfy all of the individuals in out society. All over the world there are people that have sex characteristics such as chromosomes, gonads and genitals that prevent an individual from being identified as a male or female.

When Anne Fausto-sterling says "But why should we care if a "woman," defined as one who has breasts, a vagina, a uterus and ovaries and who menstruates, also has a clitoris large enough to penetrate the vagina of another woman?", it made me realize that in the society we live in that we are our gender. Not only do our characteristics such as gender ethnic background, sexual orientation etc. describe who we are it is who are. We all lack individualism because we are constantly grouped based on what other people see. Once society cant categorize who you are or mold you to fit the expectations of what you should be, you are no longer accepted, sooner or later people start to ostracize you. I believe that no matter if you are a female, male or hermaphrodite you should be entitled to life where you aren't categorized for the comfort of other people.

Feminist Frontiers

Gender sterotypeing in the english language informs us that the words in which we use today is veryinsulting and degrading to women.Organizing titles,public addressed and bathroom doors attach a negative connotation of a lady to women.Refering to a woman as lady in most cases desexualizes a woman.The English language is very problematic in the fact that in grammar books even today, ''he'' is used when refered to both men and women.Text and phrases such as ''man overboard'' and ''one small step for man,one giant step for man'' display this.It is as if men is the only gender that exsist because both women and men and included under the one pronoun ''he''. Many words in the english language have a sexual connotation when applied to woman.The author gives an example with the word tramp.When applied to male a tramp is a hobo but a female tramp is a slut.It amazes me how the same exact word when applied to men and women have different meanings.Inaddition richardson mentioned the differences between He's easy and She's easy and what exactly is the implied meaning. He's easy is stating that he is a easygoing person whereas, she's easy means that she is easy to get with sexually.Not only is the stigma that stuck to women when you use these words degrading,it also dehumanizes woman.Men do this for power and for control.Men are the most prideful creatures, and will do anything to stay in power such as degrading women and putting them down so that their manlyhood wouldnt be compromised.

#feminist #woman #gender

''Lexicon of Debates"

This reading discuss the struggles in which woman face because of their bodies.Daily woman are put down and ostracized .It is a catch 22 because a good majority of men view women just by their physical appearance,they appear to be nothing more than an order at KFC.(breast and thighs)But on the flip side woman's bodies are supposed to be treated as temples,they should be sacred.The author states, "Women's bodies are continually reshaped,covered and uncovered according to ideology though fashion,corsets,diets,exercise programs foot binding,or veiling,among other thing." The way in which a woman should carry herself and how she should act has always been determined by the liking of their superior,men.

Aside from the criticism and ridicule that women go through just based on their gender,the struggles in which they face are even greater based on their race,sexuality,social class and age.women in society are viewed through their bodies,so not only do they need to gain equality as a gender but gain the right to be seen as more than an object.Feminist,People of superiority are the hope equality among gender.

#equality #gender #humanity

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