Objective: Attend the safezone discussion during Intro to Cultural Anthropology to prepare for the portion on Gender and Sexual Orientation. This event will count under the category of different political and class ideologies.
Detail:
During regular class time for a week, students of the class went to open discussions on the topic of sexual orientation. We were already split into groups; I was in group two. The supervisor of the group was James Grimes. This suprised me because he was my academic advisor for my first year at UAB. The students of the group came up with questions about sexual orientation for panelists to answer. Group two had two panelists, a young man named Laine, a freshman at UAB studying marine biology, and a woman named Elisa, a realestate agent.
Final Thoughts:
The discussion showed me that stereotypes do not reveal much at all about someone. Gay and lesbian individuals vary as much as any other social group: so much so that they often intertwine and make things complex. Complexity tends to intimidate people so they invent steriotypes in order to water things down or put it in a box and shove it under the bed so that it is not seen again.
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