expose and express what yours heart and mind think

We   are now in   second half of the spring semester .After analyzing and interpreting various aspects of Racial, Cultural discriminatory practices, now we are analyzing and discussing on issues of Homosexuality and its impacts.     After spring break, we discussed on topic like Gender Stereotype, Sexual Prejudice, Models of Manhood, and Masculinity as homophobia. In order to interpret and know    their approaches on our society we go through “Off the Straight and Narrow” and another movie called “Boys don’t cry”     On March 13 th, we talked about Gender Stereotype and Sexual Prejudice. Gender is   socially  defined  expectations for masculine and feminine  behavior. Gender streotypes is the prejudice or self-evaluation of gender on the basic of role played by women or men in the society.     Basically here in America, men are stereotypes  as aggressive ,macho  ,muscular ,strong, intellectual , competent and decisive   whereas women are  stereotype as passive,caretaker,sex object ,weak ,emotional ,need  input ,indecisive .    I was quite surprised to see same thing repeating about gender stereotype in US, which used to be same in third world country like mine. I had not imagined that
USA have same feeling and attitudes towards women as they are in minds of illerate poor Nepalese back in my country. Looking from eyes of mine, I   think women are competent, independent and decisive    in
USA than in my country.    Sexual Prejudice refers to all negative attitudes based on sexual orientation of human, whether   they are homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual. However, in these cases prejudice is almost towards homosexual behavior and groups of people who are gays, lesbians and bisexual as they are one who represent minorities. They are discriminated because they are less in number and societies always want to stop voices of minorities. If the cases are totally against laws and practices of society, they are more eager to stop it by hook or crook.               I think sexual prejudice is taken as negative   as it is some thing, which is not in our society and culture from long time. It is  considered unnatural too. As this practice is almost   against  the rule of nature of “opposite attracts”. Sexual Prejudice carries the voices of heterosexual majority so they want to suppress voices of minorities. For those reason attitudes   of heterosexual towards homosexual is always negative, violent and hostile.     I think in our society dominant   model of masculinity is heterosexual masculinity or manhood .but as gay a do not want to continue the typical model of manhood they suffers from oppression and discrimination of being unnatural.      Masculinity is defined by physical strength, bravado, exclusive heterosexuality suppression of vulnerable emotions such as remote uncertainty. Homophobia is a person who have negative attitude towards gay, lesbians and bisexual.     Kimmal had taken “manhood” as central organizing principle of our cultural definition of manhood   .Culturally man are taken as brave, decisive muscular confident,      I personally feel that Kimmel is true in his statement as everyman want to prove   him as being “man”. In order to prove himself he can do anything and can goes to any level to fulfill that. He even can take the help of violence to complete it. He do that because he fears from being insulted as man  without  manhood . In addition,    the   word “man without manhood” evokes him to do anything.      Heterosexual masculinity is the cultural pressure on males   to be masculine in traits as they are cultural beliefs, which is in practice   from long time ago.     In order to know the important of manhood hood we can just cite example of Napoleon (King), George Washington (Father of America), Alexander (warrior) or film stars like Tom Cruise or Arnold, they are popular of their masculinity. They are popular because of their big muscles, power, violent character, decisive nature. It shows important of manhood in our society. I think it shows   how much manhood matters in society and our surrounding.     I observe    that standard of masculinity vary from time to time, culture to culture, and place to place but always masculinity is defined as different and superior from feminity.     “Boys do not cry, is the film made on 1999, which was based on true story of Brandon Teena who embodies the ongoing dilemma of masculine identity.  Whole film is set on small town in
Nebraska and film revolves around a girl who wants to be boy.      Film is able to portrays the dynamic nature of a Brandon Teena who wanted to be boy from girl. Film focused on complicated issues of transgenderism   and its negative effects on society.    “ Off the Straight and Narrow “is the documentary, which talked about the  images of gays and lesbians in television from early 1960s until now. It is documentary to cast a critical cast over the growth of gay and lesbians and their images on TV. I think documentary is able to show     changing attitudes of society towards homosexuals. Along with that, it shows changing coverage of homosexual  issues in TV and other forms of mass media.