Homossexualidade, homofobia e a agressividade do palavrão: seu uso na educação sexual escolar Homosexuality, homophobia and the aggressiveness of curse words: its use in the school sexual education

O uso do palavrão pode gerar violência e até crime de morte na escola. Muitos professores e famílias relatam a dificuldade em lidar com ele. 90% da agressividade do palavrão se referem à sexualidade do ofendido e/ou de sua família, em especial à mãe, e à homossexualidade. Muitos dos livros de educação sexual sequer fazem referência à homossexualidade e, em nenhum deles encontramos conteúdos sobre o palavrão. O discurso religioso mais contribui para aumentar as possibilidades de punição do que à compreensão e aceitação do sujeito com esses comportamentos. Nossa pesquisa estudou jovens do sexo masculino entre 9 e 14 anos de escola pública de periferia, com o objetivo de verificar o uso do palavrão, a ofensa e a conotação expressa e entendida, mais especificamente referente a mecanismos de homofobia entre adolescentes na escola. A despreocupação para com o palavrão contribui para a homofobia e agressividade dentro da escola.<br>The use of swear words may generate violence and even murder at school. Many teachers and families report having difficulty in dealing with it. 90% of the swear word aggressiveness refers to the offended person's and/or to hers or his family's sexuality, especially to the mother, and to homosexuality. Many of the sex education books do not even refer to homosexuality and, in none of them were found contents related to swear words. The religious discourse contributes to increase the possibilities of punishment rather than to understand and accept the individual who is the offended one. Our research has studied young state school boys in the outskirts between the age of 9 and 14, aiming to check the usage of swear words, the offense itself, the expressed and understood connotation, more specifically relative to homophobia mechanisms among teenagers at school. The unconcern in relation to the use of swear words contributes to homophobia and aggressiveness at school

I Hate My Voice : Coming to Terms With Minor Bodily Stigmas

This article presents a narrative, autoethnographic, theoretical account of the public and private negotiation of “minor bodily stigmas,” which are mild physical “imperfections” that make us fear we stand out and might be rejected. To examine the situated complexity of stigmatized identity, I tell a story that shows concrete interactional details of an episode in which minor bodily stigmas evolved into a significant topic of conversation between strangers. My personal narrative explores the felt experience of minor bodily stigmas from the perspective of the experiencing and interacting holder. Thus, my work problematizes Erving Goffman\u27s sociological approach to stigmas, which examines inclusively all forms of stigmas from a distanced observational stance of beholder that privileges the outsider perspective of how others see us. Using minor bodily stigmas as a heuristic category, I emphasize how they are experienced as a double bind in interaction (to notice or not to notice) and a double bind in personal feelings (of moral character as well as physical appearance). I seek to connect theoretical and categorical understandings of minor bodily stigmas to their concrete felt experience in day-to-day life in order to examine possibilities for resisting and reframing stigmas in everyday life