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Aurora:

For this weeks forum I choose to discuss Discrimination in the LGBTQ Community (from Karen) and Women in Combat. I decided on both of these topics because there we still live in a world where the social construct of gender and shapes a person’s perception of what is right, wrong, and defines the roles we are suppose to adhere to. We also need to really look at why we still view those in the LGBTQ community as deviant.

With women in combat, there has been a lot of back lash from the community on whether or not they should be allowed. The article I choose focused on people commenting on news articles once the ban was lifted. A majority of the commenters’ highlighted that women are “not strong “or “weaker than men”. Yes, I agree that naturally men are physically stronger than women. However, because we have made women the care taker, the nurse, the teacher, it is hard to fathom one fighting in a war. Just because a man is “stronger” does not mean a woman is not “strong enough”. Also, as a military member, I have known many females who have been in combat situations, yet their job title is not combat oriented. This to say, women have theoretically been on combat for some time now. For this topic, we really need to focus on how much how we perceive gender plays a role in opinions.

With discrimination in the LGBTQ community, not only does the social construct of gender play a role, but views on deviant sexual behavior. Though processes such as marriage have been fixed, we see the transgender community facing new obstacles today. The article I choose on this topic looked at training of Law Enforcement dealing with LGBQT members. I decided on this article because most recently we have seen more focus on color bias with police brutality on the rise. This writing discusses something and small as changing the way you speak or using proper terminology to strengthen community ties. They also did a survey on those in Law Enforcement who resisted the training.  The reasoning mostly surrounded the idea that they treat all the same, and have no biases.

Collins-Dogrul, J., & Ulrich, J. R. (2018). Fighting Stereotypes:Public Discourse About. SAGE; Armed Forces and Society , 436-459.

Israel, T., Bettergarcia, J. N., Delucio, K., Avellar, T. R., Harkness, A., & Goodman, J. A. (2017). Reactions of Law Enforcement to LGBTQ Diversity Training . Human Resource Development Quarterly, 197-226.