SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Bigender, Cisgender, Homophobia
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Readings will be lightened over next 2 weeks: Cooky, messner, mustro: dude time thurs nov 21st. Socialization: starts before we are born; ongoing process by which society (agents external) help understand teach/explain/punish to understand what expectations towards actions/values/feelings/hopes should be aspired (constantly going on) Gender and sexuality is vv complex: happens all the time on multiple levels. Great tolerance for girls to wear masculine clothes & no tolerance for guys to wear feminine clothes. Assumed to be automatically assumed with sex. For some its unrelated to anatomy born with. Identity associated w/ multiple concepts ie masculinity & femininity. Socialized how to sit, walk, and move body in ways considered feminine. Traditional assumptions assumption of heterosexuality as dominant normal form. Predicated on the idea that there are important & clear diff btwn men & women* If two genders alike them would be anatomical & biological repro question. Demands clear distinct consistent difference or else it holds no meaning.
