Monday 18 May 2015

Mission Statement

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  1. sex·u·al o·ri·en·ta·tion
    noun
    1. a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted.

My mission for this blog is to inform and educate readers about the sexual identities in our world. There are many people everywhere that are misinformed about how many sexual identities there are and how different they all are from each other. There are many reasons for this and one of them is the representation- or lack thereof in the case of many identities- in the popular media. When/ if they are represented in television shows and/or movies, more often then not, it is not accurate to them (this does not include heterosexual people as they are accurately and wholly represented). This results in many stereotypes that  people commonly mistake as true. The acronym that is used as an umbrella term for many sexual identities is lgbt, but this does not even come close to covering all of them. The one that more closely depicts all the identites is lgb(t)q(i)ap, but most people do not ever learn most if any of them.
                                                      *(The 't' and 'i' stand for transgender and intersex and do not fit under the term sexual identities as they are words that identify someones gender identity, therefore will not be covered on my blog.)

Some sexual identities:

  • Heterosexual 
  • Homosexual
  • Bisexual
  • Pansexual
  • Asexual (grey asexual, demisexual)
 How many of those did you recognize and know about? Probably not all of them. This goes to show how many are erased from right under our noses. Nearly all of these sexual identities are harmfully stereotyped by the media and normal people. For example: homosexual or gay men are often viewed as feminine or girly. Homosexual or lesbian women are seen as masculine. Bisexual women are seen as promiscuous and bisexual men as "secretly gay".  Pansexuals are "attracted to literally everything" and asexuals just "haven't found the right person yet". Some of these stereotypes apply to more than one identity and i could go on as there are endless stereotypes that are pinned on people for no reason other than who they are attracted to.

In conclusion I have so much knowledge that I would love to share with you on this subject and I encourage you to stand up to the stereotyping and misrepresentation/ under representation of sexual orientations other than heterosexual. It is by far so unfair and overall dangerous for the people that fit into this category and needs to be stopped as soon as possible.

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6 comments:

  1. Unknown21 May 2015 at 17:49

    Issues like this are widespread, you have people all over the place with their knowledge. Sometimes false information may have been spread, this can then leave wrong ideas. To have something like a blog dedicated to this topic can help an individual who may not understand that their actions are harming others. Giving these people a chance to learn about sexual identities could solve a lot of problems. Not all, but a lot of people would be willing to progress from their mistakes.

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    1. Unknown21 May 2015 at 18:13

      Yes, it also seems like nearly everyone has a strong opinion on this subject; I've never met anyone who didn't know what they thought about people who are not straight. Why is there no grey area? As for people being willing to progress from their mistakes, I agree as well and the other people in this situation are overall stubborn, at least in regards to this subject and I hope that in the future, our society can learn to be more accepting.

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    2. Unknown22 May 2015 at 14:04

      I completely agree with you, Kiley! False information is always being spread, and not even purposely at the fault of the informer. I think that because sexual identity is such a 'widespread' topic, most people simply are not sure what is true or not. When people are showing the kind of behavior that harms other people, for the most part I would hope that they don't know what they are doing. Julia, your blog gives people the opportunity to start a new chapter in how they present their opinions.

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  2. Unknown22 May 2015 at 13:59

    Wow, Julia! I am very interested to see how you expand on this topic! Thank you for showing your own interest and passion for the topic, and I know you will do amazing at showing your point of view! When you brought up how "Bisexual women are seen as promiscuous and bisexual men as "secretly gay".", I unfortunately have to agree with this! It is still such a strange thing for me to wrap my head around how some people could still think these uneducated thoughts. I also think this goes interchangeably, where many men are seen as promiscuous and women seen as "secretly gay" if they are bisexual. I have heard, countless times, people saying that 'bisexual people are greedy' because they 'can't choose one gender'. I am also interested to read what you have to say about people referring to pansexuals as when "you love everything". Great post, Julia!

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    1. Unknown10 June 2015 at 15:04

      I agree that this was a good, well planned out and intruiging first post. What stood out for me is terms and how she explained what people thought of them, but didn't give a full definiton yet. This opens it up to an almost certain return of the reader. Also, for Julia's sake it may be a good idea to clarify what heterosexual means, as some people may not know.

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  3. Unknown14 June 2015 at 19:33

    Good first post julia! I love how you're going to cover more topics of the lgbt community rather than just heterosexuality and homosexuality. Touching on the topic of asexuality is also really great, considering how easily asexuals are shoved aside and even forgotten. I also agree with the fact that a lot of these are erased from the media, which isn't good for spreading awareness on all different kinds of sexualities. Great job!

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