Teaching Intolerance: How Society Enforces Commnunity by Laura Mann :: Teaching Education

Teaching Intolerance How Society Enforces Community In her essay Teaching Intolerance How Society Enforces Community Laura Mann reflects on an chronicle by Tommi Avicolli. He Defies You Still The Memoirs of a Sissy is a stimulating account of the pain he underwent as a young adult. Mann evaluates the social norm of teasing and mocking unmatchable because of actions. While it is shocking and recognizably wrong, it seems ordinary to hear someone being called a fag for bandaging a certain way or a queer for acting a certain way. It is much more usual to hear custody calling otherwise men names like this, exclusively when it is a woman being roastd by women or pull down other men, it takes on a whole different meaning. For example, someone who was non a destruction friend but an acquaintance nonetheless went through like ridicule in high school. She was poked at for being too butch or overly manly. While you hear terms like this plum often, why does it stir a differen t reaction from when guys call other guys a fag?She is actual quite normal, but a tale was started that she was a lesbian. Instead of confronting her about it or ignoring the rumor, people started to talk even more. Mann accurately describes the situation as it went in our small high school, how kids would not be his friend because they feared labels (Mann 65). As opposed to asking this girl, people steered give notice because they feared it would rub off. People began to call her dyke and other similar names without thinking twicebut they only did it in private. As major as this story was in our high school, no one dared to say anything too loud for fear it might actually purpose back to the subject. It seems that with boy, no one cares if the person involved hears. In fact, that is still the purpose of mocking him. It is even more acceptable for girls to call guys names. A girl saying that a boy is gay based on his actions is not unusual or questioned by others. There is a do ubling standard for what is allowed and what is not. It is okay for boys to mock other boys or girls to mock boys but it is more damaging and less accepted for girls to bully their own kind. I am not saying it doesnt happen, but it rarely happens without censoring to the party at hand.