Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Willa Cathers Sexual Preference :: Biography Biographies Essays
Willa Cather's Sexual Preference       A highly discussed subject about Willa Cather is whether or not she was a      lesbian. There are arguments for every side of the topic, but given the      amount of information we have, its clarity, and the vagueness of the      period itself, all of it can be used for every side.       One aspect that people questioning Cather's sexual preference concerns      gender identity greatly. This gender labeling system that everyone is      familiar with is very simple and logically sound, but not true to all      points of nature. It creates stereotypes, and stereotypes by definition      are attributes to certain things thought to encompass all that share its      label. The common idea that is bred into everyone's minds during childhood      is that girls act girly and boys act like boys. Girls that play with dolls      and have tea parties are girls, and when they grow up they will like boys.      Boys that play with trucks and army stuff are boys, and when they grow up      they will like girls. But, if girls play with trucks, they will grow up to      be boys and like girls, and boys that play with dolls will grow up to be      girls and like boys. This image generates the idea that these children      will grow up trying to be something they're not.       This mainstream way of thinking has flowed into gender roles, including      roles of the lesbian community. According to these unknown rule makers      that happen to be everywhere like Big Brother, there are butches and there      are femmes. Butches are not attracted to other butches, and vice versa.      Hence, butches take the male role and femmes take the female role,      reproducing a heterosexual couple. Because of his dominant ideology, women      who identify as both or neither are ridiculed and scorned by their own      community. Those that are both are seen as freaks of nature. The set      structure says you must be one or the other.
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