sex and orientation

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  • Created on: 06-01-20 11:41
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  • Sex and Sexual Orientation
    • Transgender
      • presence and representation
        • increasingly featured in media
        • primary source of info about transgender issues
        • positive representation: sympathetic characters raising awareness
        • negative representation: caricatures, deviant, sex workers
      • lack of research in area
      • interview LGBTQ youth
        • transmen believed to be less visible
        • often stereotyped
        • positive reps are less tokenistic and fully integrated in story
    • LGBTQ
      • initial deptictions
        • feminine men
        • masculine women
        • object of ridecule
      • later depicted as social threat, e.g. villan, sadist
        • range of poor consequences associated
      • after development of rights
        • increased acceptance within society
        • inclusion of homo-sex characters in mainstream media
          • Will and Grace
        • still often stereotypical
      • straightening effect
    • negative consequences of the media
      • objecrtificaiton in women
      • children: stereotypes and attitudes
      • transgender: not accepted, harrassment
    • Positive consequences of the media
      • LGBTQ community
        • coming out
          • 5 themes
            • resources, explore identity, find likeness, come out digitally, expand identities formed to offline
          • how to cope
            • escapism, feel strong, fight back, community
    • Theory
      • Social Cognitive Theory
      • Drench Hypothesis
      • Social Identity Theory
    • Interventions
      • gender: music with pro-equality lyrics
      • sexuality: films with same sex family - acceptance
      • talk shows discussing homo

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