CHAPTER TWO INTRODUCTION Mythical norm: what our society tends to think of as th
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CHAPTER TWO INTRODUCTION Mythical norm: what our society tends to think of as the default person- White, middle-class, heterosexual, abled, thin, and a young adult; the result is that everyone else is always defined in relation to this standard, either explicitly or implicitly. Another result is that we take this norm for granted ar as your textbook points out, tend to forget that men are gendere and Whites are racialized. We say this is a mythical norm becaus in reality there is no single "normal but instead an ever-varying continuum of individuals What are potential consequences of normalizing the mythical norm?Explanation / Answer
The potential consequences of normalising the mythical form is that we come to know that no one is completely normal in any sense.