Elements Of Sexual Identity
The author, with the example of the term “sexual identity” explains that many more ideas are attached to what one believes as one idea, such as the type of person one is attracted to. These ideas include ideas about one’s self, others they are surrounded by, and non-physical dynamics such as “emotional bonds, sexual fantasies and ideas of masculinity and femininity that seem to come together to create the human created notion of sexual identity (271). They may also disregard other factors that are important to figuring this out such as fluidity and temporality of these factors. These presumptions also vary and take place among other people, actively configuring to determine another’s sexuality by formulating these conclusions, regardless of how inaccurate they may be. There are almost always biases in these conclusions, referred to by the author as “heterosexist assumptions” which may also and ultimately skew the accuracy
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These elements of sexual identity are not “condensed” equally, as some contribute more and less than others.
This is where the beauty of the term queer comes in, as it encompasses a variety of marginalized and status quo defying identities, important as some may argue, because it challenges the standard use of categories that immediately bring comfort and solace to others as the person being categorized can therefore be easily identified. However, the mere mention of the word queer does not immediately indicate who or “what” someone is or may be due to the word’s “open mesh of possibilities, dissonances, lapses and excesses of meaning.” This term becomes even more powerful when it includes other intersection, such as “language, skin, migration, and state” adding more dynamics to an identity (272). However, because the term has such a violent and volatile history considering whom it was used to identify,
These elements of sexual identity are not “condensed” equally, as some contribute more and less than others.
This is where the beauty of the term queer comes in, as it encompasses a variety of marginalized and status quo defying identities, important as some may argue, because it challenges the standard use of categories that immediately bring comfort and solace to others as the person being categorized can therefore be easily identified. However, the mere mention of the word queer does not immediately indicate who or “what” someone is or may be due to the word’s “open mesh of possibilities, dissonances, lapses and excesses of meaning.” This term becomes even more powerful when it includes other intersection, such as “language, skin, migration, and state” adding more dynamics to an identity (272). However, because the term has such a violent and volatile history considering whom it was used to identify,