The Man Box Contributes to Homophobia

In this week’s blog post, we are asked to discuss why being gay makes you outside of the “man box.”  I think the answer is very simple.  There should be no man box in the first place. The man box promotes segregation by encouraging others to write what a man should be, when in reality, a man can be anything at all.  Homosexuality is something that someone is born with and it is not something that people can just choose or not choose.  Saying whether someone is in the man box (the stereotypical ideas and standards of men) is like saying that children of illegal immigrant parents need to leave the US, it wasn’t the children’s choice to be born in the United States, why should they be penalized for it?  People believe that homosexuality is a negative thing because it doesn’t conform to what the straight man wants society to be like.  Homophobia is a real problem, and those who are gay, deserve the same respect as everyone else.  We all have traits, and characteristics that make us who we are. Should I be segregated because I have a brown hair vs blonde hair? No. So neither should homosexual men and women.  We, as a society, need to stop segregating others based off of their beliefs, standards, or lifestyles.