Why penetrative intercourse?

It is late. This may be terse. Why must gay guys engage in penetrative intercourse? Why does penetrative intercourse define what is gay? What does it bring to a relationship? To me it seems as though it is an attempt to appropriate heterosexual standards for relationships and sexuality. Is there not more to intimacy than […]

Metanarrative of My Life

I feel like all I have done on this blog in the past few months is post about academics. Its easy to do, its practically the only thing going on in my life, and as a grad student, shouldn’t it be my life? Oddly, I feel like I have become more of myself over the […]

A Few Topic Ideas for Cognitive Science

I have given my Cognitive Science paper a little thought and come up with a few options for places to start my paper from: Is the human brain or an artificial intelligence a more effective decision-making system? — This topic is very basic, and very subjective. I think I can write an effective paper on […]

Class Designations

Sometimes talking to me or reading my posts and statuses can seem a bit like reading a course catalog, or a really bad game of memory. Unfortunately I did not figure out how to resolve that issue until now (1 week before the end of the semester for Fall 2011). However, I have now developed […]

SOCY6895 Paper Topics

kularski brought to you by Livescribe I think I finally got a full list written of topics I want to hit with my articles from this semester in sociology of masculinity.

Distancing Myself from Holidays

My family would probably think I’m horrible for this, but I just have no use for Thanksgiving or Christmas, and have little to no intention to participate in their archaic rituals this year. I suppose I associate Thanksgiving a little too closely with Columbus day, which involves a little too much colonialism, murdering and stealing […]

Update on Fall 2011 Papers

[This is an update to post: http://cmkularski.net/2011/09/fall-2011-semester-papers/] Course # Paper Topic Pages Req. Status Tutorial in Sociology SOCY 6895 Sociology of Masculinity 20-30 IP:  4 pages LGBT Studies WGST 2050 Declassification of Homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 2-4 Graded: 100% LGBT Studies WGST 2050 Evolution of Interaction Between Homosexuality and […]

Gender at UNC-Charlotte

I was filling out this survey for the Graduate School at UNC-Charlotte and came to the demographic questions and was stunned to see that we have more than 2 options for gender. Way to go UNCC Graduate School for recognizing that there are more than 2 ways to think about gender. Posted from Bessemer City, […]

What if ‘we’ are wrong?

What if homosexuality is not normal and natural? What if there is a reason for the gender divide? The more I read for my classes in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies the more I am beginning to question everything. The readings and theories go as far as claiming that physical sex is a social construct. […]