Malinowitz Reading

Discussion and Journaling

2: Lesbian and gay discourses have become apart of many students' collective consciousness and teachers are now just realizing lesbian and gay issues are becoming more abundant in the writing classroom. Therefore its almost as normal as identifying yourself or others as heterosexual.

5: Truth deconstructed the category of woman because she saw them as annoying, weak and lazy. When you go through something like she did, she probably can say that. She raised the expectations for woman and almost gave everyone a sense of hope that woman can be better. Truth showed that she could stay up there with the men and really brought a new idea about the deconstruction of women.

11: My definition of queer has changed after reading this article. I diffidently see it as less offensive in this article compared to what you would here how its used around a college campus. What I took away from the meaning or definition of "queer" in this article is being more enlightened about homosexuality.

Applying and Exploring

2: Lets say I'm thinking about gender in terms of my male friends. When i'm hanging out with them my language would be way different than when I would be hanging out with females. There could be alot of different phrases or slang that only my male friends would understand and not any of my female friends. This happens because when you are around your friends your start to develop your own language because your around them alot and its almost a latent function. Now if this language was silenced it would be very tough because everything could become bottled up and you wont be able to say what you want to. I have experienced this before, but the amount of time hasn't been that long.

Meta Moment

I think my instructor might say one of the more important things coming from this article would be that different discourse communities construct you to act a different way and we have to understand that. So, basically in this article we learned about the gay and lesbian discourse and how there discourse community works. I think its true that society constructs what it means to be a man or women. I say this because when we grow up we don't just do things on our own, must of us learn from society to see whats right and wrong  for men or women and then we react.