Intersectionality Between Gender And Sexuality

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For the homework assignment, I did the Sexuality and Gender-Career tests for the Harvard Implicit Project. Both the tests that I took were topics that are extremely prevalent in today’s society. As history has gone on and as women have gained much more freedom and rights, sexuality became more and more open for discussion. Radical feminists were truly the ones to embrace and flaunt their sexualtiy and thus came the beginning of the long road to acceptance. The intersectionality between gender roles and sexuality in society are striking.
First, I decided to take the Sexuality test to see, after all of the sociology classes I have been taking, if I was still subconsciously preferencing one sexuality over another. In our society, even though different …show more content…

The significance of this test was to have the person taking the test become aware of the societal bias one is being influenced by. In this case, one is privileged in society when it comes to sexulaity if one is not “different” and is straight. But the problem here is that the difference is not the problem. The “different” have no significance outside the system of privilege and oppression, it is all socially constructed. Society is always reminding us of these social constructions to the point where the “good” and “bad” and “privileged” and “nonprivileged” all becomes second nature to us. I was surprised that even having many friends whom identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and even transgender, after that taking the test the data suggested that I have “a slight automatic preference for Straight People compared to Gay People”. At first I was very confused but

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