SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jack Nicholson, Heterosexuality, Intersectionality
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Normal life only worth living/living a livable life. People can be healthy even if body is different from ideal body. Pushing or constructing the body towards the ideal body. Heteronormativity is a system that pushes people, creates a norm of heterosexuality as what"s accepted in society. Compulsory able-bodiedness creates the norm of the able body as the ideal body in society. There are processes within society that push that message implicitly and explicitly. Structural barrier limit people with physical disabilities like when they go to particular places, ie. washroom. Implicit message that there are particular bodies welcomed and particular bodies not welcomed. Compulsion as a way of pushing people towards fitting into those particular boxes. Queer people undo that push towards a box. The process is internalized to think that way. Using words like blind and deaf as metaphors even if we never had the lived experience. It was deviant and needed to be fixed.
