Stereotypes: Homosexuality and Pg
Stereotypes: Stereotypes developed by the public tend to create a general and sometimes mistaken idea of a particular group in society. These sometimes mistaken ideas towards certain communities in our society are what the authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Bell Hooks are trying to disapprove. In other words, as I see it, they are trying to defend who they are or where they come from by refuting certain thoughts that society has generalized of the group of people they believe they belong to. In the following essay I am going to quote and point out some stereotypes the above authors are trying to invalidate, discussing the reason each author is giving for their point of view, in the essays: Representing the Poor by Hooks and Kiss me, I'm Gay by Ehrenreich.
In the essay Kiss me, I'm Gay by Ehrenreich I was able to get hold of three mayor stereotypes that label the Gay community. The first stereotype being, how homosexuals are tagged as pests in society, people with no definition, who don't belong to any race or ethnicity, people who are a threat to civilization. Before the gay rights movement, homosexuality was conceived as a diffuse menace, attached to no particular group and potentially threatening every man, at least in its "latent" form. (pg 304) The author rebuts this idea when she boldly states, that the only reason heterosexuals declare these characteristic about gays is because they want to drown down the fear that heterosexuals have of probably being gay. There's only one problem with the theory of gays as ethnic group: It denies the true plasticity of human sexuality and, in so doing, helps heterosexual evade that which they really fear. And what heterosexuals really fear is not that "they" an alien subgroup with perverse taste in bedfellows -are getting an undue share of power and attention but that "they" might well be us. (pg. 304)
Another stereotype the author is pointing out is the classification of the human race in two: homosexuals and
In the essay Kiss me, I'm Gay by Ehrenreich I was able to get hold of three mayor stereotypes that label the Gay community. The first stereotype being, how homosexuals are tagged as pests in society, people with no definition, who don't belong to any race or ethnicity, people who are a threat to civilization. Before the gay rights movement, homosexuality was conceived as a diffuse menace, attached to no particular group and potentially threatening every man, at least in its "latent" form. (pg 304) The author rebuts this idea when she boldly states, that the only reason heterosexuals declare these characteristic about gays is because they want to drown down the fear that heterosexuals have of probably being gay. There's only one problem with the theory of gays as ethnic group: It denies the true plasticity of human sexuality and, in so doing, helps heterosexual evade that which they really fear. And what heterosexuals really fear is not that "they" an alien subgroup with perverse taste in bedfellows -are getting an undue share of power and attention but that "they" might well be us. (pg. 304)
Another stereotype the author is pointing out is the classification of the human race in two: homosexuals and