Gender Testing: True Or False?

"These writers explore both the social roles that confine them and the bodies that represent the confinement". In light of this quotation, compare how the writers explore gender.

To overcome this obstacle, writers portray feminine

Emerson refers to educating “a boy” and “a man” and uses masculine pronouns when referring to students. As a reader, does this gender bias affect how receptive you are to Emerson’s ideas?

The general public depicted in An's story utilizes a test to decide how masculine or feminine an individual is to dole out them to specific assignments and sexual orientation particular positions. While this is by all accounts fairly tragic at to start with, it quite accurately reflects the present society. In spite of the fact that individuals are not compelled to seek after professions that fit their cliché gender roles, in reality, there are unmistakable "manly" and "ladylike" connotations with numerous policed acts, wherein not adhered to, is met with prejudice, violence and varying levels of ridicule.

Race and gender are revealed in the text by the uses of imagery, characterisation, plot, stylistic techniques, and language.

Male authors and female authors are very similar and very different. The two authors both have a meaning life story to every novel. Both authors express their feelings and frustrations in their stories. Almost every author has a meaning and significance to their story. The two authors use great detail and understanding of their stories. Male authors typically write about freedom, self-seeking adventures and self-instincts. Meanwhile, female authors write about their struggle of freedom and feeling important. There are more contrasts than there are comparisons in male to female authors. The two authors can be very similar and very dissimilar. There are differences between the style, tones and approaches

In novels, masculine against feminine has been a popular writing technique throughout many writing achievements. Writers have displayed the masculine side as well as the feminine to express the setting of the story in which they are trying to write. Female writers have been suggested to have a difficult time in the interpretation of male characters within their writing. As Peter Shwenger states, “To suggest a similar assessment of writing by men is to remind us that the rich variety of writing alone” (621). However, in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee is able to express the underling roles of masculinity and femininity within the story using Atticus Finch

In Grade 11 we have read three books. These books have something in common; masculine traits. However, these traits weren't necessarily portrayed by a male character. Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart is the one to possess these characteristics but in Like Water for Chocolate it is Mama Elena. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress it is portrayed by a number of characters, both male and female. When looking at these books to each other you can see that there is a difference between their sex and their psychological and behavioral characteristics in relation to their gender.

In Cyra McFaddin’s article published in the New York Times titled “In Defense of Gender,” she asserts that male pronouns should not be eliminated from written and spoken English works. McFaddin uses satire in an attempt to make readers sympathetic to a writer’s problem of trying to be nondiscriminatory by using gender-neutral language. Cyra McFaddin’s goal is to convince readers that gender neutral language won’t solve any problems or advance feminist ideas because she believes some take it to the extreme. She also thinks that using slashes and the term person makes the English language sound cumbersome and will never please everyone. I disagree with McFaddin. She is quick to criticize the progress that others are attempting to make without offering a solution to the gender neutral language that she so despises. I believe that any progress forward is worthwhile, and accuracy is paramount. Ultimately, everyone just wants to be included in the default. While McFaddin attempts to use humor to cover her complaints of how bland or distracting writing seems when gender-neutral language is used, and how it doesn’t aid in the development of relationships when used; inclusion of everyone is much more valuable and worthwhile.

LOC: “Education” Questions for discussion 1) In this essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson describes his vie of an ideal education. What are its defining characteristics? Emerson stresses the fact the educator must respect the child.

I decided to take the Gender-Science IAT test. I thought this test would be relevant considering the material so far covered throughout the discussions. My results revealed that I didn’t associate either gender with science or liberal arts. I wasn’t surprised by these results, as I’ve always believed that both genders can study or work within those fields. However, I am aware that I may have that belief and could still have ended up with different results.

Women writers, this is to say, have been treated differently from men because they were women; and this has affected how they developed.

“ You cannot talk about genre without talking about gender.” Initially, this would appear to be a simplistic statement. On closer analysis, however, one fact becomes evident. It is the representation of gender which informs the genre of the text. Ismay Barwell , in her essay ‘ Feminist perspectives and narrative points of view’ states that “ Every text is gendered since every act of narration…..involves a process of selection….and the nature of that selection implies certain values” ( p.99). She makes the point that “ The desires, attitudes and interests which guide any choices made must be either male or female”( p.98 ). It is within this frame of reference, that the two texts will be analysed.

As people read things they have formed a stereotype on what gender the voice is coming from. For example if a male reads a magazine article from a hunting magazine, they are going to think that a male wrote it without even looking at who actually wrote the article. This is the same for females reading a magazine about wearing make-up, they have a stereotype of who writes these articles. Most males and females are set in their ways, they have set stereotypes that grows with them as they grow up. The gender of the voice in writing plays an important role of what stereotype the reader is going to perceive.

Dominant groups in society often set up normative ideas about bodies, genders and sexualities in order to preserve the societal hierarchy that greatly benefits them. White, cisgender, heterosexual males are often at the top of this hierarchy and are the active perpetrators of their imposed rigid standards. Categories are created by these dominant groups to exercise their control and those who do not fit or refuse to categorize themselves are punished, either metaphorically or literally. In the sports realm, these norms are ubiquitous. However, in this paper, I argue that sports can both uphold and challenge these normative ideas about bodies, genders, and sexualities through normalized practices it normalizes that are considered to be different from the outside world. Sex-tests and gender policies in sports competitions uphold the idea that there is a biological difference in genders and rigidly implement the gender-binary. On the other hand, the practice of contact sports and the use of locker rooms as a voyeuristic experience challenge normative ideas about bodies, genders and sexualities. These practices are standard in the sphere of sports a