Os efeitos do binarismo de gênero nas estruturas cognitivas e na construção do pensamento social dos filhos da injúria

Abstract

The objective of this work was to investigate the social male representation and love for transvestite, gay men, and heterosexual men. We used a questionnaire with opened and closed questions distributed among three thematic groups: Be a man, be a woman; love and sex; prejudice and homophobia. 131 people participated, they were divided into three groups: 40 heterosexual men, 52 gay men, 39 transvestites. We used the ALCEST software to analyze the data, a tool frequently used in studies on social representations. The social male representation contains elements who sometimes approach and sometimes are away from the workgroups. Love, the investigated object, acts in the gender identities constitution of the three groups revealing practices that reinforce gender binarism. Already the discourses that justify prejudice and discrimination, whether lived or not, are based on the cognitive structures of the researched groups, conferring legitimacy to these same group identities and respective practices.