Queer Theory

I feel as though the author of “punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens” is not just charges others to pay attention to the previous ignored identities, but also proposes the nonce taxonomy of “punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens.” The reading I felt just continued along with the main themes  that have transpired through out the beginning of the semester. It showed another layer of how we continuously categorize each other. It can be seen on page 542, when she says "all heterosexuals are represented as dominant an controlling and all queers are understood as marginalized and invisible" (542). It basically goes along with how we lump people into groups to make better sense of why they do not fit the “norm.”

This article further goes along with how society’s heterosexism is observed to be the norm, and used as a justification to exclude everything else. In the article it is referred to as “hetero normativity” and discusses how it is a “localized [practice]…privelige” (440). This article also talks about the intersexuality of different oppressive political and socialized contributors within society.