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  1. just be yourself and don’t care about what other #people think! Why would you care about what other people think about you?

    (#DISCLAIMER: what other people think about you will determine every aspect of your #support network, your ability to get #housing and #employment, the quality of your medical #care, how you are treated by the #legal #system, and how likely people will be to sic the #police on you for #violating #social #norms.)

  2. "If a young woman does not follow the social injunction to have feelings in a sexual relationship, she knows that she risks being called to order, being punished. Or to feel shame or guilt. This burden of the social norm is primarily internalised."

    "There is, in all circles, the threatening 'spectre of the faggot'. The determination to appear as 'a man, a real man' and secure one's masculinity, while escaping suspicion of homosexuality, which is considered demeaning and dangerous. Some gay boys from privileged backgrounds have told me that they were in a relationship with a girl at school to give the impression, to cover their tracks."

    An interview with Isabelle Clair, in 2023 (fr) ouest-france.fr/societe/sexual @sociology @edutooters 🧶

    #status #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #quotes #bitches #whores #teenagers #norms #heteronormativity #normation #patriarchy #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #highSchool #SecondarySchool #sociology

  3. "Disciplinary #normalisation consists first of all in positing a model, an optimal model that is constructed in terms of a certain result, and the operation of disciplinary normalization consists in trying to get people, movements, and actions to conform to this model, the normal being precisely that which can conform to this norm, and the abnormal that which is incapable of conforming to the norm.
    In other words, it is not the normal and the abnormal that is fundamental and primary in disciplinary normalisation, it is the norm.
    That is, there is an originally prescriptive character of the norm and the determination and the identification of the #normal and the #abnormal becomes possible in relation to this posited norm."

    Michel #Foucault in ’#Safety, Territory, Population’, a lecture given at the Collège de France on 25th January 1978; in French : guillaumenicaise.com/wp-conten

    #quotes #mentalHealth #norms #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory