Sexism, Heterosexism, and Attributions About Undesirable Behavior in Children of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Parents

Massey, Sean G.

doi:10.1300/j461v03n04_05

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“…This also echoes findings from previous research examining attitudes towards lesbian and gay parents more broadly (e.g., Massey, 2007;Morse, McLaren & McLachan, 2007), which has consistently found that men's attitudes are more negative towards such parents than are women's. This previous research suggests that one of the primary factors influencing gender differences in attitudes towards lesbian and gay parents are gender norms and rigidity in terms of beliefs about gender and sexuality.…”

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confidence: 86%

Moving beyond homonormativity in teacher training: experiences from South Australia

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2013

Sex Education

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As growing numbers of lesbian mother families enter the Australian education system, there comes with this an injunction to better include such families. The first step in such inclusion is to ensure that teachers are provided with knowledge about lesbian mother families that moves beyond simply refuting stereotypes, and toward acknowledgement of the specific experiences and needs of this family form. At the same time, however, it is important that educators, when attempting to include lesbian mothers and their children, do not reinstate new norms at the same time as challenging old stereotypes. The present paper reports on the development and application of a workshop aimed at providing education students at one South Australian university with a framework for understanding lesbian mother families that is critical of norms in all their forms, including amongst those who research lesbian mother families. It is suggested that the positive findings from the workshop may reflect the utility of challenging both heteronormativity and homonormativity in conjunction with one another so as to present students with a broadly critical approach to understanding sexuality education.

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confidence: 86%

Moving beyond homonormativity in teacher training: experiences from South Australia

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2013

Sex Education

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“…In the same volume, Massey (2007) reported similar results among U.S. participants. In this study participants responded to a vignette describing a scene at a restaurant in which a 4-year-old boy misbehaved and one of his two parents intervenes.…”

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confidence: 60%

“…This process of sorting through ambiguous attributions (Crocker & Major, 1989) and deciding what is and is not prejudice has been described as a kind of microaggression (Massey, 2007; Sue et al, 2007). Such microaggressions have been found to take a psychological toll on their victims, including increased self-doubt, frustration, isolation, and emotional turmoil (Chakraborty & McKenzie, 2002; Clark, Anderson, Clark, & Williams, 1999; Solo’rzano et al, 2000; Steele, Spencer, & Aronson, 2002).…”

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“…These scales have included items such as “homosexuals should not be allowed to raise children” and “male homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children the same as heterosexual couples”. However, these measures primarily have assessed approval or disapproval, and have not included evaluations of actual parenting behaviors or skills (c.f., Massey, 2007). …”

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confidence: 99%

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Modern Prejudice and Same-Sex Parenting: Shifting Judgments in Positive and Negative Parenting Situations

Massey

Merriwether

Garcia

2013

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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The current study compares the effects of traditional and modern anti-homosexual prejudice on evaluations of parenting practices of same-sex and opposite-sex couples. Undergraduate university student participants (N = 436) completed measures of traditional and modern anti-homosexual prejudice and responded to a vignette describing a restaurant scene in which parents react to their child’s undesirable behavior. The parents’ sexual orientation and the quality of their parenting (positive or negative quality) were varied randomly. It was predicted that participants who score higher in modern prejudice would rate the negative parenting behaviors of same-sex parents more negatively than similar behaviors in opposite-sex parents. It was also predicted that this modern prejudice effect would be most pronounced for male participants. Both hypotheses were supported.

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“…Such recognition has appeared in the form of documentaries, talk shows, and films as well as features in popular magazines-all of which have as their central story line the lives of gay parents. One reading of this increasing (and largely positive) representation of gay parents would suggest that gay parents are considered more acceptable to a mainstream audience, and, certainly, this has been the finding of research conducted over the past decade where increasingly positive attitudes toward gay parents amongst the general population have been reported (Massey, 2007;Morse, McLaren, & McLachlan, 2007). Another account of this increase in positive representations, however, would suggest that there has only been an increase in a relatively narrow range of images of such parents, images that are deemed acceptable viewing (i.e., benign and thus normalised) for the general public.…”

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“Let's Go to the Movies”: Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents

Riggs

2011

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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As a growing body of research evidence demonstrates, increasing numbers of gay men across the world are choosing to become foster or adoptive parents. Most important, the families that these men form are continually found to be supportive and positive environments in which to raise children. Yet despite these positive findings, other empirical evidence from examinations of popular media representations of gay parents highlights the negative assumptions that continue to be perpetuated against gay men who are parents. More specifically, these findings suggest that print and popular media promote an account of gay parents that is often either normalising or pathologising. The findings presented in this article extend this latter body of research by exploring filmic portrayals of gay men variously engaged in fostering and adoptive arrangements. Through an analysis of five recently released films, four dominant themes are elaborated: (1) the capacity of gay men to parent and under what circumstances; (2) the relationship between gay men's sexual identities and their identity as parents; (3) the agency of children who are cared for by gay men; and (4) constructions of kinship in the films. Implications are explored for what these themes tells us about the representations of gay men deemed acceptable or intelligible at present, and the identities the films offer to gay parent viewers. KEYWORDS gay father, gay adoptive father, gay foster father, children of gay foster parent, children of gay adoptive parent, film representationsThe author acknowledges the sovereignty of the Kaurna people, the First Nations people upon whose land he lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Sexism, Heterosexism, and Attributions About Undesirable Behavior in Children of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Parents

Cited by 40 publications

References 28 publications

Moving beyond homonormativity in teacher training: experiences from South Australia

Moving beyond homonormativity in teacher training: experiences from South Australia

Modern Prejudice and Same-Sex Parenting: Shifting Judgments in Positive and Negative Parenting Situations

“Let's Go to the Movies”: Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents

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