Prejudice and the Unmarked/Marked Mindset

Julia Serano’s essay introduces the Unmarked/Marked mindset, a cognitive bias she argues underlies most forms of prejudice. Unmarked traits – such as being cisgender, heterosexual, or part of a cultural majority – are treated as normal and invisible. Marked traits, by contrast, draw disproportionate attention, scrutiny, and assumptions.

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