Talking Points #3:

Dennis Carlson: Gayness,Multicultural Education, and Community Alicia Tougas


Quotes:

1) "..Some individuals and subjected positions get privileged and represented as "normal" while other individuals and subjected positions are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
- This shows how not everyone is accepted. Those who want to be themselves, can't because being themselves is being looked down upon.People should be able to live the way they want without the looks or words from other people around them.

2) "For we do not get very far if we look for what is said about gayness in educational texts. we get much farther if we pay attention to what Susan Sellers calls the "silent spaces" or the "not said" of the text, and what Mike Cormack and others have called the "structuring silences" within texts."
- This quote shows how not everything is exposed to children in schools, only what they think is best for students to hear or read. This is something that is becoming more prominent in our society. Children are now going to school with two mothers or two fathers, not everyone has the "normal" mother and father. If children are exposed to this it will be easier to understand why their friends have parents of the same sex.

3) “Among other things, it involves the constitution of a whole network of support services and organizations designed to help individuals “come out” in a supportive environment and participate in the gay community, including gay counseling services, drop-in centers, support groups, athletic leagues, choruses, and political organizations.”
-This quote stuck out to me because it shows how gay people can go too all of these things for when they want to "come out", whereas straight people don't even have to think about mentioning their sexuality. This is not fair to the gays because when they want to let people know about how they feel they have to worry about what other people may think.

This article was easy to read. It shows how not everyone is noticed/ mentioned about as they should. Also, how those who may be different have to suffer in wondering what other may think when they want to "come out". Gay people should be able to go about life just as those who are straight do.