How do you identify?

One thing that stuck out to me that was brought up in class was the idea that the reason why Margret Cho was able to joke about the things that she did (such as Korea/Asian decent, and LGBT) was because she was Korean-American and an ally of the LGBT community. Because of this, she is able to do this and not seem offensive to anyone. Something that stuck out to me as especially interesting was the fact that while she was able to make fun of asians because she was aisn, but she was also able to make fun of gay people, and she wasnt gay. This was because of her background. She stated how she grew up in a particularly gay area of San Francisco. It makes me wonder how one can identify with a group, but not actually be part of that group by definition. This made me think of the issue of race, and how it may be possible to identify with an ethnic group that you are not necesarily a part of. I realize that homosexuality is not an ethnicity, but it is a minority group that is struggling for equality in American society. This made me hopeful for change in rigid classification societal lines to a more open identification with other groups based on beliefs and experience rather than weather or not one "belongs" to that group.

Meredith Cotter, Post #11