Normalizing Homosexuality
AWA PRINCES ZADI
SOC 100034
04/09/14
READING RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT In her article Normalizing Heterosexuaity , Karin A. Martin discusses heteronormativity as the way heterosexuality is constructed as a norm and how children are socialised into this idea by their parents.
According to Martin, heterosexuality is privileged advertised over other forms of sexuality and taught to children from a younger age through their parents particularly their mothers, who assume that their kids would be heterosexuals. Those mothers dismiss the eventuality of their kids being gay because not all of them notice an evidence of homosexuality behaviors in their child’s interests and their interaction with their peers. They describe heteromantic relationships to their children using the men meet women, get married and have babies perspective relating to their own stories. Mothers are not the only factor of kid’s socialization into heteronormativity, researches also demonstrates that kids learn about gender at school and through media which advertise hetereosexual’s love in kids shows such as The Little
Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. A survey made to determinate mother’s way of parenting their kids on sexuality showed that while some parents informed their children about homosexuality and are accepting for an eventual possibility, other think it is okay but hope not for their kids to be gay and the rest just prevent it by often using biblical references in order to
teach their kids that homosexuality is a bad thing.
From an early age we have all been taught that we were princes and princesses and that we would eventually meet someone from the other gender and get married. This idea of heterosexualty as normal and natural has always been the norm until today where the LGBT community is very active and even propulsed the idea of same sex marriage hoping for a certain homonormativity. Talking about parenting strategies, we never know which person our kids
SOC 100034
04/09/14
READING RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT In her article Normalizing Heterosexuaity , Karin A. Martin discusses heteronormativity as the way heterosexuality is constructed as a norm and how children are socialised into this idea by their parents.
According to Martin, heterosexuality is privileged advertised over other forms of sexuality and taught to children from a younger age through their parents particularly their mothers, who assume that their kids would be heterosexuals. Those mothers dismiss the eventuality of their kids being gay because not all of them notice an evidence of homosexuality behaviors in their child’s interests and their interaction with their peers. They describe heteromantic relationships to their children using the men meet women, get married and have babies perspective relating to their own stories. Mothers are not the only factor of kid’s socialization into heteronormativity, researches also demonstrates that kids learn about gender at school and through media which advertise hetereosexual’s love in kids shows such as The Little
Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. A survey made to determinate mother’s way of parenting their kids on sexuality showed that while some parents informed their children about homosexuality and are accepting for an eventual possibility, other think it is okay but hope not for their kids to be gay and the rest just prevent it by often using biblical references in order to
teach their kids that homosexuality is a bad thing.
From an early age we have all been taught that we were princes and princesses and that we would eventually meet someone from the other gender and get married. This idea of heterosexualty as normal and natural has always been the norm until today where the LGBT community is very active and even propulsed the idea of same sex marriage hoping for a certain homonormativity. Talking about parenting strategies, we never know which person our kids