Gayness, Multicultural Educational and Community
By: Dennis Carlson
Carlson argues that as teachers we need to accept everyone as individuals and also teach that to our students. Public school needs to be more open and accepting of people who are gay, bisexual trans gender, or whatever they might be. He also says that public schools need to make it OK by talking about it and making it a more comfortable topic to talk about.
"Throughout much of this century, the dominant idea of community in America was represented by what I will call the normalizing community." We are so used to our ideas being normal that when a different idea comes along we don't accept it like we should. This is how we think of people who are gay or lesbian, we know what it is know however were are not completely accepting of that lifestyle. I agree with this quote that "normalizing community" is what we are used to and when things change it is not ok because it is not whats "normal."
"gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent ..."
I decided to pick this quote because I really agree with what he is saying. I agree with what he says about gay people being absent, invisible, and silent. This is true however, day by day this issue not not accepting people is getting better. Many years ago gay people could not come out because it was not acceptable to anyone, today it is more acceptable for a gay person to come out and live their life the way they want to. I feel like we need to be OK with the fact that someone we know or a family member is gay. It has been such a sensitive topic for so long, its time we get over this. Gay, Lesbian, Trans Gender people are human beings too and we need to treat them the way we would want to be treated.
"Within normalizing communities, some individuals and subject positions (i.c., white, middle class, male, heterosexual, etc.) get privileged and represented as 'normal' while other individuals and subjects positions (i.e. black, working class, female, homosexual, etc.) are dis-empowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking, in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
I this this is a very strong quote. I would agree with him when he says that white, middle class, heterosexual, men is what is privileged in the world today. I feel like he has a really good point when he says this. I agree with with what he is saying although I don't feel it is right. I agree when he says that blacking working class, homosexual, females are the kinds of people that do not get privileged like they should, they are all people to and its not right for them to be treated differently! thats not right! and its not fair!!
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't like reading this article. It was interesting information and I learned a lot by reading it, But it was long, and I really couldn't get into it. I had to go back and re-read some paragraphs because some of them were just to confusing! Some of the vocab was though too! But anyway- i agreed with a lot of what he was saying and i understand his points. Even though it was not the most interesting article, it had tons of information and opinions in it!
By: Dennis Carlson
Carlson argues that as teachers we need to accept everyone as individuals and also teach that to our students. Public school needs to be more open and accepting of people who are gay, bisexual trans gender, or whatever they might be. He also says that public schools need to make it OK by talking about it and making it a more comfortable topic to talk about.
"Throughout much of this century, the dominant idea of community in America was represented by what I will call the normalizing community." We are so used to our ideas being normal that when a different idea comes along we don't accept it like we should. This is how we think of people who are gay or lesbian, we know what it is know however were are not completely accepting of that lifestyle. I agree with this quote that "normalizing community" is what we are used to and when things change it is not ok because it is not whats "normal."
"gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent ..."
I decided to pick this quote because I really agree with what he is saying. I agree with what he says about gay people being absent, invisible, and silent. This is true however, day by day this issue not not accepting people is getting better. Many years ago gay people could not come out because it was not acceptable to anyone, today it is more acceptable for a gay person to come out and live their life the way they want to. I feel like we need to be OK with the fact that someone we know or a family member is gay. It has been such a sensitive topic for so long, its time we get over this. Gay, Lesbian, Trans Gender people are human beings too and we need to treat them the way we would want to be treated.
"Within normalizing communities, some individuals and subject positions (i.c., white, middle class, male, heterosexual, etc.) get privileged and represented as 'normal' while other individuals and subjects positions (i.e. black, working class, female, homosexual, etc.) are dis-empowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking, in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
I this this is a very strong quote. I would agree with him when he says that white, middle class, heterosexual, men is what is privileged in the world today. I feel like he has a really good point when he says this. I agree with with what he is saying although I don't feel it is right. I agree when he says that blacking working class, homosexual, females are the kinds of people that do not get privileged like they should, they are all people to and its not right for them to be treated differently! thats not right! and its not fair!!
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't like reading this article. It was interesting information and I learned a lot by reading it, But it was long, and I really couldn't get into it. I had to go back and re-read some paragraphs because some of them were just to confusing! Some of the vocab was though too! But anyway- i agreed with a lot of what he was saying and i understand his points. Even though it was not the most interesting article, it had tons of information and opinions in it!
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