Homosexuality

During week 10 one of our work group topics was based on homosexuality. During the lecture we looked at the writer Judith Butler who wrote about gender trouble in her writing she describes that “the problem with drag is that I offered it as an example of performativity, but it has been taken up as the paradigm for performativity she carries onto saying that those who use drag it enables them to emphasise their identity. In her writing she states that masculinity and femininity are both constructed. She carries onto saying that those who are anti-homosexual they have a pressed desire. She also says that when a person is born they are put into a group where they are attracted to the opposite sex. She also questions femininity she uses the example of being pregnant she says that is pregnancy necessary for femininity? She says that it pregnancy does effect femininity, women who are not capable of having a baby are not seen as feminine she says that the norms that humans have been put in make people uncomfortable because they are unable to follow the norms of gender. She also says that there is a discursive enforcement of a norm, then she carries on to saying that it’s not just a norm of heterosexuality that is weak. She says if you say “I can only desires X you have created a whole new set of desires which are a position of unthinkable from the standpoint of your identity. She also says that those who claim that they have nothing to do with homosexuality in fact are utterly preoccupied by it. However during the lecture when this point was made it made me realise that there must be some reality towards this. As humans we do desire things. This then got me thinking about her point that we desire such things that standpoint our identity. I personal view about homosexuality is that I am a bit confused how to take it. If someone wants to be gay they can they have the freedom of choice to be but if I was to look at it from a religious view I think that it is wrong however, having looked at through Butlers writing my opinion has changed. I feel that one can’t help being gay. However, it may seem that in society today homosexuality is acceptable however, that may not always be the case there are may be people who have not accepted homosexuality or there might be people like myself who do not how to react towards homosexuality. However some homosexuals do not like to be referred either as gay or lesbian. The article shows that lesbians do not like to be referred as lesbians this may be a problem not only for homosexuals but also might be a problem for bisexuals as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7520343.stm