Gender Reflection

Throughout this semester of learning about women, gender and how they relate to society opened up my eyes. I always known about the problems within society about equality for women but I thought that was it. Being heterosexual I didn't see how some events could affect the LGBTQ+ community. I did not even know what asexual was until this semester. I also did not know people identify as other genders besides female and male, or sometimes no gender at all. Going through this course and learning all

From the moment we are born until we die people continually tell us what we should and shouldn’t do based on our sex. Even though our sex doesn’t equate to a specific gender, people assume that a person’s gender, referring to the social and cultural traits that are associated with either males or females is the same as their sex, the biological differences in anatomy between males and females (Lindsey, 4). Through the influence of my family, peers and religion, I have learned what it means to be

When I hear the word gender I think of gender reveal parties, where families gather and cut a cake or open a gift that will reveal what the gender of their baby is. How excited the everyone gets when its revealed and how the party is often filmed and posted on social media where is gets hundreds of shares. I know gender is often assigned before the baby is even born but that is not how I believe it should be. Gender typically considered to encompasses physical appearance, personality traits, interests

difference between gender and sex can often be misinterpreted. Gender are the behaviors and appearances society dictates a body of particular sex should perform, structures peoples understanding of themselves and each other. Sex refers to biological designations meaning male or female. Throughout my life, I have understood these concepts and had different images/messages from family, religion, and social media, on what I believe is right and what my expectations are. The way gender and sex have been

Sociology of Sex and Gender, I had not thoroughly or thoughtfully contemplated how gender affects my life and the world around me. The concept of gender, to me, was simply the anatomical sex of a person. One of the most interesting enlightening topics learned during this course was the concept of the gender binary that our society has created. I also found the concept of “doing gender” eye-opening. I discovered ways in which I didn’t realize I was obeying so many gender rules in my own life

Encountering the controversial issues of gender, and the battle for people to openly convey their gender may seem like a biased and trivial issue to some, but after analyzing my own and the behavior of others throughout the past week, it is evident that the performance of gender heavily influences interactions with yourself and the rest of the world. Based upon my experiences throughout my week, I will attempt to explain the role gender plays on my thought processes, my conversations, and my acquaintances

as the rules of arithmetic. We didn 't want it to come out that way, but it did." Weinburg explains that science, like arithmetic is ultimately an objective discourse—free from subjectivity and emotion. However, in Evelyn Fox Keller’s novel Reflections on Gender on Science, she argues against science as being an objectivist ideology. She asserts that science does not encompass the complete truth, but is rather a perverted, masculine discourse. Keller critiques Weinburg’s assertions as faulty, where

There are many things that stand out since I have been attending the inside- out course on gender at the OSU. One observation that I find myself clinging on to is the mere fact that our classroom location has been changed from the Outside unit in the visitation building. Honestly, I wonder if it had to do with the correction officer's discretion based on our gender. They may assume that women are fragile and defenseless thus entering in in all male's prisons could be uncomfortable. Furthermore, the

My understanding of gender has developed tremendously since arriving at Temple. The few prerequisite courses I have taken helped me progress in a minor way. The way I initially thought, the world was a much kinder place. In reality, we see hate and discrimination and choose not to believe it or join in on it. In the class I have learned the true extent of how deeply rooted these issues are and how inauspicious the journal has been for many groups throughout the decades. Gender to me is not the socially

I believe that a person’s gender is based on multiple factors, aspects, and circumstances in the said person’s life. As what Michael Kimmel stated in the chapter “The Social Constructiuon of Gender Relations”, we ‘respond to the world we encounter, shaping, modifying, and creating our identities through those encounters’ (98), and because each of us have different encounters, we experience things differently, which creates our differences. Unfortunately, people in power use these differences to regulate