User:Emyaj18

Bio

Welcome to my user page. I am a current student and I plan to go into the medical field one day and become an OB/GYN. I also teach kids how to swim, and I swim competitively myself. Outside of all that, I tend to express myself though my artwork and stories. I lean heavily towards painting. When I write I like to write fiction and fantasy. I love the idea of making my own world where I make the rules and nobody can tell me my limits, because I make them myself.

I think I will use Wikipedia mostly to look at and discus topics that I am passionate about, such as sexism, the LGBT community, shows and authors I like, as well as artists that inspire me. I do not think I will be active on Wikipedia outside of this class, but I do intend to check up on certain pages. As a pansexual woman I feel like I need to check up on pages I'm very familiar with (i.e. pansexuality, women's rights, sexism etc.) and making sure there is accurate, unbiased information available.

Article Critique

I visited the heteroflexibility page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: problems with citations, the article has some bias and has some parts that are irrelevant.

            On this Wikipedia article I noticed a lot of its information was not cited. Large sections of the article had only one source and seemed to be surveys without any other source crediting their information (2,3,4,5). I looked at all of sources and found that all the information was published between the years 2008 and 2010, except for one which was published in 2014 but updated in 2016 (1).

            As well as being out of date at least one source shows some bias, under the section on homoflexibility it quotes a source saying “Straight people also reward the homoflexible man. I was telling a straight friend that as I get older, I find myself noticing women in sexual ways more than I ever have before. This straight friend high-fived me! He didn’t say, “Ew, that’s STRAIGHT!” or judge me negatively. Inherent in both terms is homophobia — the idea that there is something wrong or out of control about gay sexual behavior” (2,3) this was stated by a gay sexologist, I think that with the topic as well as his sexual orientation that he seemed to put a bit of opinion into this statement

In this article they mention homoflexibility which is a very similar to heteroflexibility. I found this to be somewhat irrelevant and should have its own Wikipedia article. I also noticed that most of the article explained and put together survey information but very little history, it fails to mention when the term came about and what its exact definition is, though it does tent to explain what it is by comparing heteroflexibility to bisexuality.

The article in the end held all the information I would want on the topic and made me look a little harder for mistakes. The citations were a bit out of date but the information seemed to line up well, I found a bit of bias but it still had relevant information and lastly there was some unnecessary information on homoflexibility but it is very similar to the topic at hand.

1. "Are ‘Heteroflexible’ and ‘Homoflexible’ Shades of ‘Bisexual’?". Huffington Post.  Retrieved 2017-09-24

2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroflexibility

3. ."Mostly Straight, Most of the Time". goodmenproject. 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2011-01-30

4. . Ambrose, Emily (2009). "Heteroflexibility: Bending the Existing Label Triangle". Colorado State University Journal of Student Affairs (43): 69–75.

5.Ciumas, C.; Hirschberg, A. Lindén; Savic, I. (2008). "High Fetal Testosterone and Sexually Dimorphic Cerebral Networks in Females". Cerebral Cortex. 19 (5): 1167–1174. PMID 18854582. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn160.