Gender and Sexuality Chap 11 and Understanding Sexual Orientation

Understanding Sexual Orientation, written by Alfred Kinsey -
     is a passage which tries to describe the differences between a homosexual male and a heterosexual male.  Homosexual is when you are sexually attracted to someone of the same sex as yourself and heterosexual is when you are attracted to someone of the opposite sex. These two "classifications" is used to describe ones sexual preferences. In the middle of these two classifications is "bi-sexual", which are people who are attracted to both sexes, male and female. The passage than went in depth into how homosexual men are "supposed to" act. They're "suppose to be" feminine in their movements, have fine skin, are soft-spoken, artistically sensitive, "has teeth which are close to a female" (whatever that means) and less often becomes bald. These characteristics are used to describe a 'gay man' because it goes against what the gender roles of a man is suppose to be. The textbook definition for gender is, the socially constructed cultural expectations associated with women and men, and so the characteristics listed in the passage is what makes-up a gay man because 'ideally' a man shouldn't be sensitive, artsy, his teeth shouldn't be 'close to  females' and hard-spoken with deep voices.

    I think that the article is very biased. I know homosexual males that aren't feminine in their ways and you can't tell their homosexual until they actually admit that they are (OH AND THEIR TEETH DON'T LOOK LIKE A WOMEN'S, hahahaha). And if this author is saying this about men, what is saying about women that are homosexual? That in contrast homosexual women are manly? Big and buff? Wear baggy clothes and go bald faster then men? Like it just doesn't make sense. You can't categorize homosexuals and heterosexuals by personality characteristics. You will be very wrong, ALL OF THE TIME.

    The chapter speaks about how gender is socially constructed (p. 286-287) and how as men and women we have certain expectations that we have to meet to called male or female. I think that it's annoying that a girl can't wear blue and that a boy can't wear pink because male's and female's cant wear those colors. I don't think that there should rules on gender. I think that people should be comfortable enough to do and wear and act as they please. Society shouldn't shame those are homosexual and tell them that it's wrong to be homosexual and right to be heterosexual.

     Unfortunately, I know that none of this will change in my lifetime and me by myself, I can't change anything either. I just hope that one day, years from now people will realize that we should be free to do and like whom we please. I think that the society will be better as a whole and it'll take away these unwritten rules which causes stress and sometimes we can't pinpoint why we're stressed because the rules are so invisible. Hopefully, one day *crosses fingers*.