Test 2: Sexualities

Question 1

Heteronormativity?

Answer 1

“North America is a heteronormative society, meaning it supports heterosexuality as the norm” (Little et al, p, 370).

Heterosexuality understood as:

Natural
Preferred 
Taken-for-granted
Produces gendered sexual norms:
- Sexual double standard

Question 2

homonormativity?

Answer 2

Idea of what types of queer people are excpeted (it’s still narrow)

Lines up with race, class, and gender performance

Question 3

Dominant pornographic discourse?

Answer 3

1) phallocentrism

Sex understood through the perspective of male activity, reinforces hegemonic masculinity

2) objectification of women
3) racism

Racialized people are:
Represented as asexual or hypersexualized (closer to nature, animalistic, objectified)
Whiteness as the norm

4) homophobia/ homo-eroticism

Heteronormativity reinforced