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WGS 201 1st Edition Exam #2 Study Guide Tolerance > violence does not = Freedom :We must learn to think about the effects of the terms we use to define things.Model of progress keeps certain people in power. The tolerance over violence ideology does not involve a displacing of dominant ideologies like heteronormativity. There’s no opening up of a discussion on its effects, rather a dispersing of tolerance to certain marginalized groups that fall outside of the assumed norm. Dominant idea of equality often leaves out micro-aggressions that hold together ideas, beliefs and systems of discriminationWe often hear things from liberals like “they are just like us” not “we are just like them” Often unable to see this view as problematic because we are so invested in seeing ourselves as virtuous people.Tolerance allows you to exist but marks your difference and marks you as other.Dean Spade :You lose credibility within certain systems when you critique the paradigm of power The perpetrator victim dyad - needing to show a perpetrator makes it harder to identify web of interconnected structures that support discrimination. So, it makes it harder to prove the existence of structural violence and the systems that produce and support certain kinds of violence. Now You Get It Do You Want More? UrvashiVaidSix Main points 1. “The movement for marriage equality narrowed the focus, resources, and policy aspirations of the mainstream LGBT rights movement into a single issue and lead to the construction of a previously larger family recognition agenda”2. “Winning the right to same sex marriage will not automatically confer full human rights on LGBT communities”3. “The right marry can be achieved legally while LGBT people cans still be undermined culturally”4. “In their narrow focus on winning marriage, proponents of same sex marriage seem willing to sacrifice large segments of the LGBT community (Single parent, uncoupledpeople, those not interested in marriage) in order to secure the support of right-wing allies”5. Winning Marriage gives many the illusion of winning LGBT rights, when in fact it does not secure equality or justice for all parts of the LGBT communities”6. Securing the right to gay marriage does not change the institution of marriage, its relationship to capitalism, and its privileged status as a state-sanctioned form of family, orits gender-role infused history.Warner: - Why not argue for the rights given to married couples instead of fighting for the right to marriage and keeping these rights within that institution?- Marriage as a social system creates a narrative that pressures us to value a certain way of relating to other people and legitimizes certain relationships over others (like monogamy and marriage)- Movement for same se marriage mystifies LGBT activism and history- Makes it so we must conform to certain standards in order to gain access to resources.- Same sex marriage movement cultivates a new “common sense”. Marriage should be a personal choice which people should be able to decline if they wish without repercussions (social and institutional).- Rights now, marriage is not an option, it is coercive and designed to force us into the institution as a way to get access to rights. - One can love w/out being married or married without being in love. Marriage is first and foremost about rights, not love.- We have romanticized an institution that reproduces hierarchy and coerces us to imagine only one kind of love/way of loving. - False consciousness can be widely shared. Example: Historically, White people voted for racist laws thinking the laws are for their own safety, when in fact the laws did nothing but harm Black communities and reproduce a social hierarchy of


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