Malinowitz

Before You Read.

I personally think that I am pretty familiar with the term lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. I do not need to Google them.

Summary.

Malinowitz basically talk about gays and lesbians fitting into their specific discourse communities. She personally thinks that gays and lesbians hide in fear from the world because we live in a homophobic world. She used a school teacher as an example to back up some of what she was saying. She also went into how we didn't allow women to vote and whatnot because we did not think they were mentally strong enough. Yes, that changed over time. Will the culture accept gays and lesbians just the same over time?

Synthesis.

I believe one person that can be related to this is Swales. I say this because Swales article deals with the six characteristics of a discourse community and gays and lesbians fit into this. A second person that can be related to this is Gee. I say this because Gee talks about being individual and gays and lesbians have to go through that. Finally, a third person to relate to this is Wardle. I say this because Wardle talks about how not to put down others based on ideas and that is definitely a major issue when it comes to gays and lesbians.

Response	Quotation
In the past few years, things have changed in the classroom because of gays and lesbians and the thoughts and actions behind them.	“In the last few years, there had been a subtle but persistent change in the classroom climate around the subject of sexual orientation” (110).
Because of what is going on in our society with gays and lesbians, this is what people are calling what state we are in now.	“We are now in what many activists, lobbyists, journalists, and profiteers have enthusiastically dubbed the “gay nineties” ” (111).
I don't believe this should have changed. It was fine the way it was before. Why change it?	“At the same time, the issue of gays in the military developed to the point where the mantra “Don't ask, don't tell” mandated the hypocrisy of silence as federal policy” (111).
I don't this is correct. This is an opinion and I think will just change everything for the worse.	“Creating an academic environment in which the complexities of lesbian and gay subjectivity can enter public discourse will, first of all, entail “outing” realms of experience, fear, feeling, and prejudice that have not been substantively dealt with in our classes and departments before” (112).
Yes, gays do live in fear. This is just saying how they can still be in fear within the classroom.	“I can hypothesize that the closeted gay students in my classes remain silent our of some of the same fears” (113).
I believe that this is another opinion and homophobia will never change/go away.	“Sexual identity is a component of personal and social identity highlighted for lesbians and gay men because homophobia in the culture makes it problematic” (124).

AE 2.

I am going to choose religion. I am Roman Catholic. We follow what it says in the Bible and we live by that. We also attend mass every weekend. I have not experienced that before and I understand what this question is trying to hint and I do not want to talk about that. The bottom line, it wasn't silenced and  everything is fine.

Thoughts.

Honestly, I did not really enjoy reading this at all. The reason I say this is because I am a Republican and I do not support gay rights. To be honest I skipped over some of the parts in the book because I didn't want to read it anymore. I would not read this again. It also didn't change my mind about anything.