Blog #9 Queer Theory

The queer theory says that it is essential for us to stop using the terms men and women, which implies difference in the heterosexual system. As gendered and sexual subjects, we will remain in society’s traditional gender binary. In queer theory, the desire of a sexual object that is not ‘normal’, challenges the heterosexual society. Mansfield says that we can have queer politics without fixed gender. I am not sure exactly what I think about this, but I think I would lean toward no. We cannot have queer politics without fixed gender and sexuality. Since our definitions of sexuality are based on the heterosexual gender system, I don’t see how queer theory would come up otherwise. If there was not a dominant norm, we wouldn’t be able to label anyone as different or queer.