Bornstein and Michael Warner, Hetero-normativity
The word queer simply means different or deviant. Hetero-normativity is cultural bias that creates friction for homosexual relations. Hetero-normativity is opposed to things that are not culturally normal. Homosexuality, for instance, is abnormal, and heterosexuality is the acceptable norm. Hetero-normativity is a cultural bias, ands its solution lies in cultural evolution (culture must accept these trait as normal) and not in political legislation. However, government should discourage normatively by abstaining from passing biased laws such as anti-gay marriages legislation in some states.
From all these questions, I conclude that Bornstein is a deviant. She is challenging values that the society hold dearly. If she is a member of that society, she wonders why she does not have similar desires to other members of the society. It is paramount to note that in any society, men control the productive capital, and this gives them power. Women are attracted to wealthy men to start families. This attraction grows and becomes the love, and it is supposed to hold a couple together until they die. Bornstein is wondering why she does not have the ‘normal' human desires.
[...] From all these questions, I conclude that Bornstein is a deviant. She is challenging values that the society hold dearly. If she is a member of that society, she wonders why she does not have similar desires to other members of the society. It is crucial to note that in any society, men control the productive capital, and this gives them power. Women are attracted to wealthy men to start families. This attraction grows and becomes the love, and it is supposed to hold a couple together until they die. [...]
[...] From all these questions, I conclude that Bornstein is a deviant. She is challenging values that the society hold dearly. If she is a member of that society, she wonders why she does not have similar desires to other members of the society. It is paramount to note that in any society, men control the productive capital, and this gives them power. Women are attracted to wealthy men to start families. This attraction grows and becomes the love, and it is supposed to hold a couple together until they die. [...]
[...] In her book, Bornstein poses questions to the readers that reveal her true self 1. She questions the value of wealth and power. She also questions what she becomes when she gives up the dominant male identity and wealth to change her sexuality She questions the value of feelings. She wonders what she becomes if she has feeling for same sex people, in this case women She questions the identity of those attracted to her. What does it make them? [...]
[...] Bibliography Bornstein, Kate. Gender outlaw analysis: on men, women, and the rest of the society. New York: Routledge,1994. Print. Warner, Michael. The trouble with normal sexuality: sex, politics, and the total ethics of queer life. New York:Free Press Print. [...]
[...] The solution to this has been advocating empathy for gay couples (Mogul et al. 23). These are some of the problems that gay couples have to deal with. For other queer people, the treatment is almost the same. Political deviance met with exile, or imprisonment especially in lowly developed countries or in communist countries such as china (takes the case of the Dalai Lama for example). It is, therefore, reasonable to say that deviance not tolerated in most-human cultures (Mogul et al. [...]
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