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I'm very sad to say that sometimes we need to know what NOT to do. The "author" of this work repeated 3201 the following semester with another professor.

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Homophobia - the irrational fear and hatred of those

who love and sexually desire those of the same sex.

Although probably many people intimately know its

meaning, the word homophobia was unknown to me , and

when I first heard of it, I was struck by how

difficult it is to say, what an ugly word it is,

equally as ugly as its meaning. Like racism and

anti-Semitism, it is a word that calls up images of

loss of freedom, verbal and physical violence, and

Most people experience homophobia through rejection

by friends, threats of loss of employment and threats

upon their life; and far worse things happening to

other lesbian and gay people such as loss of children,

beatings, rapes, death. It's power is great enough to

keep ten to twenty percent of the population living

lives of fear (if their sexual identity is hidden) or

lives of danger (if their sexual identity is visible)

or both. And it's power is great enough to keep the

remaining eighty to ninety percent of the population

trapped in their own fears. Long before people had a

word to describe the behavior, they were engaged in a

search to discover the source of its power, the power

to damage and destroy lives. The most common

explanations were love the same sex was either

My exploration of the sickness theory led me to

understand that homosexuality is simply a matter of

sexual identity, which, along with heterosexual

identity, is formed in ways that no one conclusively

understands. The American Psychological Association

has said that it is no more abnormal to be homosexual

than to be left handed. It is simply that a certain

percentage of the population is. It is not healthier

to be heterosexual than to be right-handed. What is

unhealthy and sometimes a source of stress and

sickness so great that it could lead to suicide is

homophobia, that societal disease that places such

negative messages, condemnation, and violence on gay

men and lesbians and how they have to struggle

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Sexism is culture's insistence that people have to

follow certain “rules” about how they should act,

based on their gender. (Boys are “supposed” to play

with trucks, girls with dolls.) Sexism also tells us

how we should think and feel. Sexism is a form of

violence. If you need proof, ask yourself the

following: Is there anything more violent than a boy

burying his feelings alive because he's “supposed” to

control his emotions? Or a girl being taught to hate

herself because she doesn't look like a Barbie doll?

Sexism teaches us to do violence to ourselves -

beginning when we're children. Is it any wonder we

prevent this disease by taking the proactive

approaches such as: Pay more attention to such life

style factors as diet, exercise, networking, and

health ageing. Define health to include well-being

and psychological factors ageing. Strive to maintain

wellness and prevent deterioration. In addition to

the above women's health needs after menopause are

often omitted from consideration. Menopause is seen

as the end of the normal life cycle, almost as the end

endocrinologists as an abnormal state of the body

because of glandular changes associated with ageing.

So women's normal ageing bodies have been medicalised

as if they had a disease and taken over by the