SOCI 10100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rape Culture, Sexual Fluidity
22 Jan 2016
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Sociology strait men having sex with each. The social constructions we have of strait femininity are much more fluid than strait masculinity. In the case of softball and field hockey: women who play these sports are seen as butch or a lesbian, men who are ballet dancers are seen as less masculine. Women can make-out in a bar and still be strait. The consequence of this construction is that because women are more sexually fluid, they can potentially be aroused by anything and everything: this leads to rape culture because blurred lines. Social constructions are there so we draw on them when we need an explanation for something. Strait men don"t want to be put into the queer category: also bi-sexual is a category no one really believes in. The born this way argument: who would ever choose to be gay but this is a homophobic argument, you can"t discriminate against someone who was simply born different.
