Word: heteronormativityã
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...diversity training freshmen endure is another example, however perverse, of the College acting in loco parentis—although on behalf of whose parents, I’m unsure.The critics are right: The current policy on co-ed housing is largely one of inertia—“heteronormativity?? notwithstanding, no one could seriously accuse the College of intentionally regulating its students’ lifestyles. Sex-segregated housing is a policy that remains in place despite our present pedagogy, in deference to a bygone regime of broader tutelage that worked well enough for centuries.In any case, there?...
...Heteronormativity?? is hardly a pressing concern when issues like hate crimes and job discrimination plague LGBT Americans more frequently and devastatingly. And yet still the BGLTSA focuses its efforts on demonizing Pinkett Smith, who spoke from her heart and personal experience in a plea for a respect for diversity. How dare...
...we’re here, we’re queer” phase. Nowadays, Harvard’s BGLTSA prefers to host sex toys and S/M workshops, two prominent Gaypril events, and focus its political activism on the University’s “heteronormativity??—manifest in the group’s most recent project of tallying the gender-specific bathrooms on campus and demanding they become unisex...
...organizers say that the BGLTSA’s slogan is too ambiguous and could be read as allowing for the continuation of heteronormativity??i.e. “we” could be read to mean heterosexual supporters and the slogan could imply that queers need the support of heterosexuals...
...decontextualization of a once-potent political action, the BGLTSA’s event re-defined silence as the silence of the closet. Needless to say, the silence of the closet is not the silence of the grave. To be, as one sign put it, “Silenced by Heteronormativity?? is a condition easily remedied by coming out and staying out. To compare this to the absolute silence of the victims of homophobia cheapens their deaths; it is not only politically ineffective, it is actively retrogressive...
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