48-110 (Foundations of Social Life) - Lesson Objectives:
1. Relate sexuality as a spectrum;
2. Distinguish sexual identity from sexual orientation;
3. Discuss how sexuality relates to gender;
4. Discuss the notion of sexual fluidity;
5. Define and discuss heteronormativity, homophobia and heterosexism;
6. Define and discuss Straight Privilege;
7. Identify the major issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community;
8. Recognize examples of positive and negative representations of LGBTQ+ in entertainment media;
9. Define and recognize examples of bisexual erasure;
10. Identify aspects of sexuality of interest to criminologists.
HMCS Max Bernays Pre-Deployment Brief (May 2024).pptx
ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE: SEXUALITY
1.
2. Q: What do we mean by ‘sexuality’?
Sexuality encompasses all the ways
people experience and express
themselves as sexual beings.
3. In Orphan Black, Delphine tells Cosima
that “sexuality is a spectrum.”
4. Heterosexuality Opposite-sex attraction Door swings one way
Homosexuality Same-sex attraction Door swings other way
Bisexuality Both-sex attraction Door swings both ways
Pansexuality Gender-blind attraction Revolving door
Demisexuality Emotional connection
attraction
Door is locked; need the
right key
Asexuality Lack of sexual attraction Door is actually a wall
5. Sexual orientation includes sexual attraction
and sexual behaviour that is lasting and
enduring.
Sexual identity involves romantic and sexual
attractions and behaviours as well as
membership in a community of others who
share those attractions and behaviours.
6. • Most people adopt a sexual identity that
‘matches’ their sexual orientation.
• For some, sexual orientation does not
coincide with their sexual identity.
• Instead, sexual identity is a label adopted
to signify to others who they are as a
sexual being.
7. • For some people, there is a political
element to their sexual identity.
• Others identify as queer to highlight the
fluidity and diversity of gender and sexual
orientation and to reclaim the term ‘queer’.
8. • One’s sexual orientation and one’s sexual
identity is based on one’s gender.
• But what if you are transgender? Or
intersexed?
• What if you are attracted to transgendered
people and/or intersexed people?
9. • Components of attraction other than sex
and gender
• We are attracted to people on the basis of
ethnicity, race, social class, religion, level
of education, ability/disability, body shape
and size, and age
10. Orphan Black features several clones
with the exact same DNA but who have
completely different ideas about
sexuality and sexual expression.
12. • Heteronormativity is the belief that
heterosexuality is the only acceptable and
‘natural’ form of sexuality.
13. • Homophobia is the fear, hatred, disgust,
mistreatment, or intolerance of same-sex
intimacy, relationships, and/or people who
identify as or are perceived as LGBTQ.
14. • Nathan Palmer suggests that homophobia
is partly responsible for men’s restroom
etiquette.
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15. • No Talking
• No Eye Contact
• Maintain the Buffer
• These rules come from the larger North
American culture of heteronormativity and
homophobia.
• Violating these rules may suggest same-sex
attraction and this is not acceptable in
heteronormative culture.
16.
17. • Personal homophobia is prejudice; it is the
personal belief that lesbian, gay, and bisexual
people are sinful, immoral, sick, inferior to
heterosexuals or incomplete men and
women.
18. • Institutional homophobia refers to the many
ways in which government, business, religious
institutions, and other institutions and
organizations discriminate against people on
the basis of sexual identity.
• Essentially, this is what is called heterosexism.
19. • Heterosexism refers to the practices that are
embedded in social structures and reinforced
by heteronormative ideology.
• Ways in which social institutions such as
government, workplace, religion, family and
media are organized to exclude or
disadvantage same-sex relations.
20. • Straight Privilege refers to the advantages
that heterosexual people experience in their
day-to-day life.
21.
22. • LGBTQ+ refers to the community of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer-identified individuals.
• Experience stigma and discrimination
across their life spans, and are targets of
sexual and physical assault, harassment
and hate crimes.
• May experience multiple forms of
marginalization or disadvantage at the
same time (intersectionality)
23. • Since the late 1960s, the LGBTQ community
in Canada has seen steady gains in rights.
• Major strides toward mainstream social
acceptance and formal legal equality.
• Canada is internationally regarded as a leader
in this field.
• In 2005, Canada became the fourth country
worldwide to legalize same-sex marriage.
24. • LGBTQ characters continue to be under-
represented in film and television and are
often relegated to secondary characters with
little to no story development.
• Negative stereotypes still abound and intimacy
is often lacking in relationships between same-
sex characters in comparison to opposite-sex
characters in relationships.
25. • IndieWire: The best LGBT characters on
television in 2015.
• Included Connor Walsh from How to Get Away
With Murder.
Right from the start, Connor seemingly got more
action than any other character – gay or straight
– in primetime, which “is certainly notable in how
it goes against the common, desexualized fate of
most network LGBT characters.”
19 of the best LGBT characters on TV right now
26. • Connor’s chaotic, complicated
relationship with IT nerd Oliver is one of
the most layered (and sexiest) LGBT
relationships on network TV.
27. • The 100 is also notable for portraying same-
sex relationships with complicated story arcs.
• Sexuality is never featured as problematic
within the series, suggesting a move away
from strict heteronormative assumptions.
28. “Sci-fi premise aside, the
real thematic heart of
Sense8 is its
queerness…almost every
sensate, at least for a
scene or two, explores
their queer side…”
David Levesley for Outward (2015)
29. • Nomi (transwoman hacker) and Lito (closeted gay
actor) do a lot of heavy-lifting in terms of screen
time and narrative.
Nomi and Amanita
Lito and Hernando
30. • In the comic book industry,
Marvel has tackled the
issue of gay identity as well
as gay marriage.
• In 1992, Marvel Comics
made headlines by
revealing that Northstar, a
superhero associated with
Alpha Flight and the X-Men,
was gay.
32. • Bisexual erasure or bisexual invisibility is a
pervasive problem in which the existence or
legitimacy of bisexuality is questioned or
denied outright.
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33.
34. • Bi-erasure in popular culture can have
detrimental consequences for young
people who are bisexual.
• Without media exposure to the concept
and existence of – let alone the
acceptance and support of – bisexuality
it’s nearly impossible to know that it’s even
an option.
36. • More socially acceptable for women to be
bisexual than for men
• Heterosexual Male Gaze women as
bisexual is more palatable
• Culture of masculinity that emphasizes
heterosexuality and heteronormativity
37.
38. “When women talk about enjoying sex, it’s almost
forbidden. Just having a health sexual attitude,
you are labeled as loose, wild, a slut. You have no
morals, and you’re seen as some kind of sexual
deviant or someone who can’t be in a
monogamous relationship. The minute you talk
about enjoying yourself, being curious, that is still
taboo.”
Scarlett Johannsson
39. • Player or Victimizer?
• Virgin
• Creep
• Sexist or Objectifier
• Male Nudity
• Male Homosexuality
Source: http://becauseits2015.wordpress.com
40. Criminologists concern themselves with:
• Hate crimes based on sexual identity
• Same-sex marriage and legal rights
• Homophobia in policing