How To Use heterosexism In A Sentence
- They may grudgingly grant the systematic nature of inequality, but to them, racism, sexism, and heterosexism are still bad attitudes held by bad people.
- How do sexism, heterosexism and homophobia work together to constrain sexuality and gender and to punish transgression of these categories?
- If we want to eliminate racism, sexism, heterosexism and other negative ‘isms,’ we need to take responsibility for the context of the words we use.
- Racism (along with sexism, heterosexism, and all the other isms) is seldom overt.
- We progressives jump up and down about these and other "isms" -- sexism, heterosexism and so on -- reflecting a sometimes poorly-articulated reaction to the notion, not just of differing innate qualities and capacities, but of differing innate worth -- the latter being a moral, and hence political, judgement. Archive 2009-10-01
- Only relatively recently did the social scientific and therapeutic communities begin to utilize the concepts of homophobia and heterosexism to portray the discrimination faced by gay people.
- Indeed, homophobia becomes nearly synonymous with homosexuality, a realization that has spurred recent efforts to discard the term homophobia in favor of heterosexism, a political move that favors the materialist account over the psychoanalytic one. (emphasis added). Heterosexism and the African American Community
- More recently, the feminist critique, which originally centered on gender equity, has been expanded and joined by others critiquing racism, classism, heterosexism, nationalism, and so on.
- This occurs not only for the gay and lesbian youths themselves but also for those who care about them and have been misinformed through their own exposure to heterosexism and homophobia.
- As the authors themselves note, however, their text is limited in addressing how class and economic issues intersect with racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, ageism, and able-ism.
