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

Teaching fanaticism How Society Enforces Community In her essay Teaching Intolerance How Society Enforces Community Laura Mann reflects on an autobiography 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 societal norm of teasing and mocking one because of actions. While it is shocking and recognizably wrong, it seems ordinary to ascertain someone being called a fag for dressing a certain way or a queer for acting a certain way. It is much more usual to hear men calling other men names like this, but when it is a woman being ridiculed by women or even other men, it takes on a whole different meaning. For example, someone who was non a close friend but an acquaintance nonetheless went through similar ridicule in high school. She was poked at for being too butch or overly manly. While you hear terms like this fairly often, why does it flap a different reaction from when guys call other guys a fag?She is actual quite normal, but a rumor was started that she was a lesbian. Instead of confronting her or so 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 argue to asking this girl, people steered clear because they feared it would rub off. People began to call her dyke and other similar names without thinking twicebut they scarcely 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 very get back to the subject. It seems that with boy, no one cares if the person involved hears. In fact, that is quiet 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 double warning 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 censorship to the party at hand.