TEC 13, Hyderabad

1. By Shefali Kulkarni

2. Definition:
 from Youthsafe.net: “the institutionalized assumption
that everyone is, or should be, heterosexual,and that
heterosexuality is inherently superiorto and preferable
to homosexuality or bisexuality

3. Examples:
1.Teacher to class,”I need a strong boy to help me with
the chairs.”
2. Teacher to class,“I need to get more girl-books for the
girls.”
3.Teacher to a student, “Stop dreaming about your
girlfriend.”

4. Sample size
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80
73
Face-to-face
35
10
Email
Responded with examples

5. Implications :
I need a strong boy to help me with the chairs.
Not me!

6. I need to get more girl-books!

7. “Stop dreaming about your
girlfriend.”

8. Intentional?
“I never thought about this”
“I didn’t mean it like that”
“I think I am guilty of saying things like these”

9. Why does this happen?
 Socio-cultural
 Teachers’ beliefs
 Emulation

10. Intentional?
Intentional heterosexism
Policy – only boy’s football team in schools
Rules – separate stairs for boys and girls
strict demarcation in seating
arrangements in class.

11. What needs to be done?
 Change the sentences to make them inclusive…

12. Movie clip – tagda bandha
Role play 1
1. Employer
2. Female interviewee
3. Male interviewee

13. Role Play 2:
Students :
Principal of the college:

14. Bibliography
 Language and Gender – by Sara Mills
 Delusions of gender -
 Rewind and Replay –
 Teaching about Heterosexism: Challenging
Homophobia in South Africa


15. Thank you!