Define queer theory being sure to use and explain concepts from your reading. Explain how queer theorists would react to the data services such as OK Cupid and Tinder, which offer a wide variety of ways to self-categorize gender and sexual identity?
What will be an ideal response?
Queer theory is a theory of sexuality and sex. It emphasizes social construction and historicity. It includes desire and bodies and incorporates ways of resisting compulsory heterosexuality and the heterosexual matrix.
Queer theorists might applaud the breaking down of male/female and hetero/homosexual binaries but would likely resist any structure than compel individuals to identify themselves with preexisting categories.
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