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Today is. GayMU's Day of Silence. My silence echoes the silence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer people who are not as noisy as I am. . Their silence is caused by harassment, prejudice, discrimination, violence, and fear. Yesterday. "fine by me" day got canceled.

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  1. Today is... GayMU's Day of Silence My silence echoes the silence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer people who are not as noisy as I am. Their silence is caused by harassment, prejudice, discrimination, violence, and fear.

  2. Yesterday... "fine by me" day got canceled Here's why I think that's wrong… Their silence is caused by harassment, prejudice, discrimination, violence, and fear.

  3. Most "school shootings" happen in high school & in the US From 1982 to 2001, there were 28 middle and high school rampage shootings in the US. All the shooters were boys. Their silence is caused by harassment, prejudice, discrimination, violence, and fear. Kimmel & Mahler 2003 ABS46:1439

  4. where do school shootings happen? • These shootings are closely connected to a specific culture of masculinity in the US • Only one occurred in an urban setting • Most involve rifles, not handguns • 20 of the 28 (71.4%) occurred in "red states" (states that voted for Bush in 2000. • That's a proxy for cultural climate. • key variables: gun culture & gender culture

  5. bullying "Nearly all had stories of being constantly bullied, beat up, and … “gaybaited.” … most strikingly, it was not because they were gay (at least there is no evidence to suggest that any of them were gay) but because they were different from the other boys—shy, bookish, honor students, artistic, musical, theatrical, nonathletic, “geekish,” or weird. Theirs are stories of “cultural marginalization” based on criteria for adequate gender performance, specifically the enactment of codes of masculinity." (Kimmel & Mahler 2003:1445)

  6. girls From a study of all 12 cases 1997-2002: • In 5 cases, shooters specifically targeted girls who had rejected them • In 3 more cases, shooters killed boys they thought might challenge them in relation to a girl • In the remaining 3 cases, shooters reported being unhappy about girl trouble, but did not target the girls. Klein 2005 Crime, Media and Society. 1:90

  7. Today is... GayMU's Day of Silence My silence echoes the silence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer people who are not as noisy as I am. Their silence is caused by harassment, prejudice, discrimination, violence, and fear.

  8. the plan • We have some great variables we can explore today: • HOMOSEX • OWNGUN • FEAR, etc • We can put those together with other basic variables like: • POLVIEWS • FEFAM • SEX • EDUC, etc.

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