Steffensmeier's Perception Of Homosexuality

A homosexual is a person who is sexually attracted to another person with the same sex of their own, and for many decades, the topic of homosexual was always is one the blooming topic throughout the world. Even though homosexual is commonly heard around the world today, but the society put very little care or attentions upon the problem of sexual orientation discrimination. This types of discrimination have commonly happened at school, public places, and workplaces. Moreover, nobody deserves to live under the world harassments, emotional rejections and mistreating because they want to live for themselves and be truthful to their inner selves. It is very important for the society learns to be accepting, have an open mind, and allows people in
In Steffensmeier, The Journal of Sex Research, he uses the method of surveying to examine the several factors of reactions toward a person's identity as a homosexual. Steffensmeier distributed two questionnaire forms to 373 students in an introductory sociology class, and most of the questions are aiming to see how likable for a student to get close with another homosexual student (tables are shown on page 3). In the end, he came upon that there are two commonly “held stereotypes of sex reactor, acceptance” (52), and the stereotype of sex reactors are commonly rejected and view Homosexual as a “sick, dangerous, and swish” (54) toward their own community. Which is why it is difficult for a homosexual person to be openly involved with heterosexual society because they would most likely suffer their own sexual insecurity and emotional anxiety of being different. In addition to the argument of mistreated of the LGBT society as a whole, Steffensmeier also makes a similar point with Sullivan that “rejection toward individual male homosexual are greater than female homosexual” (55). There is always a gender bias between a female and a male, most females are illustrated to be very feminist, easygoing, and sweet so it is easier for a female to show their
The two specialists that work under the American Sociological Association Lindsey Wilkinson and Jennifer Pearson also used the similar objectives that associate with high school students in contexts of religion, and the struggles that a homosexual have to go through for being open about their sexual orientation as a young adulthood to successfully write their article Social Psychology Quarterly in 2013. In the beginning of the article, specialist Lindsey Wilkinson stated that “religiosity has been a strong and persistent predictor of negative attitude toward same-sex sexuality… as well as an aspect of school…” (181). As an adolescents growing up in the open society, they are often being taught that homosexual is sick, wrong, and that “homosexual are against the religion” (182). Which is why some children are most likely to grow up criticizing and discriminating another homosexual child or against those who appear to be different than who they are. In another word, bullying are commonly known for many high school students, and it's more likely to cause depression or at worst to lead the victims in the state of suicide. Although, the United Stated have been publicly accepted and supports the LGBT society, but “the young people continue to hold negative attitudes toward the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) peers” (Pearson 199). In which