Connell (1995) states that a rich vocabulary of abuse is one of the ways dominant gender and sexual identities is reinforced.
lees (1986)
boys use name calling to put girls down if they dress or behave in certain ways. Girls are called slags if they looked sexually available or drags if they didn't
the use of labels is how pupils police each others sexual identities
Paetcher states that name calling helps to gender identity and maintainmale power eg derogatory terms like gay or lezzie
Parker (1996)
found that boys were labelled as gay for being friendly with girls or femaleteachers
Lees and Paetcher argue that these labels have no relation to pupils behaviour and their function is to reinforce gender norms and identities
