Malinowitz questions

 

Discussion and Journaling

2. Our culture has become very diverse. It would be ridiculous to say everyone is homosexual. People come in all different shapes and sizes, different genders, and they can like who they want to like. Our culture has become so diverse I feel people have become universally accepting of characteristics of other people. There has become a subtle but persistent change in the classroom climate around the subject of sexual orientation. This will prevent many prejudices. People have become more emphatic and comfortable with lesbian and gay existence, often introduced as essay topics. Not having ant suspicion or surprise. Gay and lesbian discourse are just as important because they are part if our collective conscience.

5. Sojourner Truth deconstructed the category of “women” in many ways. She saw women as weak, lazy, and annoying. She was such a strong and empowering women. She set the standards for women in her day in age and women today still look up to her. She was put through hard work and labor all day because she grew up as a slave. I believe she was stronger than most men I know.  I feel if she was strong enough to endue all this she really did deconstruct the category of “women.”

11. This article really changed my definition of “queer.” I really never thought of my definition of what “queer” means to me. I knew before this article my definition of queer had nothing to do with anyone gay or lesbian. If I had to define it my definition would probably be very ignorant and say something like, “ a queer is someone who is very off and not normal.” Now my definition after seeing all the information in this article would change my definition to be somewhat more knowledgeable. My definition now would state, “A queer in my personal opinion is someone who defines their sexual orientation and sexual attraction with someone the same sex as them.” This is still a very general definition, but I feel it still defines the word.

Applying and Exploring

2. The aspect relating to this article that would relate to this article would be that I am a woman. In the article in talks a lot about how women had less rights and needed to prove themselves. It also talks about the aspects of women being lesbians. This topic is very general and there are many different languages used in this Discourse community. When two women are talking there language would obviously be different than a women talking to a man.  This conversation may include more gossip, and probably talking about men. I can appropriate this language because I myself am a girl and understand how to talk to women, and know what language is appropriate. This language is essential to my life and all lives of women, because this is our way to vent, because the language of women is much different than the language of men. If this language was silence then I would probably go insane.

Meta Moment

I feel my teacher would think there is many points that are considered important. We are currently learning about discourses, so the point of Gay and Lesbian discourses would be a main concept in class. Also how this discourse has changed and became more prevalent and accepted within our culture. We would most likely talk about how discourses have clear, set ideas, but yet are constantly changing. This discourse has changed and grew just as the discourses of being a man and women have changed. All of these discourses have changed because the way they are being socially constructed. We construct these discourses not only by our personal opinion, but the way the world looks at them as a whole, socially. I believe most concepts we perceive are majorly influenced by social construction.