Butler\u2019s article was of interest and also familiarity to me having taken many-a-gender and sexuality courses in college. One of the points in the article mentions masculinity in terms of hertosexuality, and how anything straying from the \u201cnorm\u201d (possibly heteronormativity) makes us uncomfortable, and points to men being the directed target: \u201c…to be a woman within the terms of a masculinist culture is to be a source of mystery and unknowability for men…presumed as heterosexual and masculine, was defined as trouble\u201d (1). Our society is very much into the gender binary (male and female; the idea that there are only two genders), but I want to say as more research and awareness has been output into society from psychologists and more, we are slowly moving to a more concise understanding of not only gender but also sexuality, expression, and its fluidity. These binaries often always accompany gender roles and stereotypes that more often than not do more harm than good, and place those who identify within those genders into tiny boxes, never to stray from what is expected (again, the \u201cnorm\u201d).
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