A reflective look from the realities of LGBT populations to the notion of "Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstract

For the French philosopher Monique Wittig (1935-2003), from her feminist approaches, the notion that Rousseau establishes about the utopia of the social contract where all human beings would live in civil equality is a vision, besides androcentric, heterosexual. It should be noted and it is necessary to start from the idea that today that notion of Rousseau’s social contract remains, laconically, a utopia. The discrimination and exclusion of LGBT populations is the obvious proof that we exist and live under a social contract that violates our most basic freedoms and systematically excludes and discriminates in unequal and inequitable relations to many people. Both Monique Wittig and Rousseau conclude that it is necessary to constantly rethink and revise this tacit social contract so that, although it sounds utopian, the common good and full freedom as people are achieved.