Sexism By Marilyn Frye

Gender is actually a set of rules, customs and traditions assigned to people of a particular sex. Gender is not biological but sex is. Rather, according to Lorber, it is influenced by our society and our culture. By proving this claim, Judith Lorber has put forth the example of the man and this example is efficient in distinguishing “gender” as a practice than as an innate attribute.

What is it that makes a woman a woman, or what makes a man a man? Deborah Tannen, author and Ph.D. of linguistics, investigates this question within the essay, “There Is No Unmarked Woman.” An excerpt from a larger publication, “Talking from 9 to 5,” written in 1994, “There Is No Unmarked Woman” is an effective examination of the social injustice as to why the state of womanhood is “marked” while the state of manhood is “unmarked”, and what this means for each sex. The book itself is a result of real-life research about the conversational

Judith Butler (Gender Trouble, 1990) argues that rather than sex determining gender-gender determines sex. Sex is shaped by gender discourses which give us scripts to perform according to whether we are biologically classed as male or female. The continual performance of these scripts on a daily basis is what makes us male or female. The classic example of this is the third sex, yes, the third sex and that is the transgender( born male in a female’s body or

In chapter 6 from gendered lives communication, gender, and culture by Julia Wood it talked about gendered nonverbal communication. Chapter 6 had multiple key concepts that stood out. For instance, in chapter 6 some key key concepts that stood out where Power which refers to the degree to which people are equal to, dominant over, or deferential to others. Chapter 6 also talked about Artifact which is a personal object that can both express identity and influence how we see ourselves. Another key concept that stood out in chapter 6 was physical appearance: how one looks.

In this society, people have grown to believe that your gender is what defines who you are and what you do. By using gender-based clothing such as dresses and overalls, life events, and the importance of choice, Lee suggests that gender roles can’t be pushed upon someone because they must choose and accept it themselves.

There are several sources that tell a person how to be a man or woman. Science tells us by recognizing the X or Y chromosomes. The media shows us through the physically ideal celebrities that grace the covers of magazines and flaunt their bodies in commercials. Sports, wrestling, cars, and blue for the boys. Dresses, make-up, painted nails, and pink for the girls. All of these sources, as well as others, have evolved into an expectation that has become institutionalized within society. This expectation, is placement and belonging into the binary system of person: the man or the woman. In Anne Fausot-Sterling's acrticles “The Five Sexes” and the “The Five Sexes, Revisited”, the

Here McFadden has exhibited, in her own comical way, how tiresome it can be for an audience to listen to a speaker who has enacted gender neutral identifiers. Again, I find myself in agreement with our author, there must be more thought put into these changes. McFadden has done a very good job of demonstrating her claim in a way that almost puts you in the audience for a speech that has furnished these gender neutral changes. I don't want to have to listen to that and I wouldn't fault anyone else who had no desire to sit through a similar presentation.

In “Becoming Members Of Society: Learning The Social Meanings Of Genders,” by Aaron H. Devor, the author believes that the gender male or female is based on what our community believe in. We were taught the differences between a male and a female and anything other than that is not considered normal. Throughout the essay, the author is informing the audience what the social meaning of genders. Furthermore, the author also inform the audience about how we come to learn about the specific gender at a very young age. Moving on, I believe the author is directing his essay to teenager and adults as well as elderly. it’s also includes those who are interested in the topic and want to learn more about genders in our community. By publishing this,

Genetics, hormones and environment all guide in how humans communicate. In order to better understand the issues with gender communication, we must be willing to consider different options and ideas. Let’s start with genetics. The X and Y chromosomes typically determine whether we are male or female but according to Genetics Home Reference http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/androgen-insensitivity-syndrome (2015) “Androgen insensitivity syndrome is a condition that affects sexual development before birth and during puberty. People with this condition are genetically male, with one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each cell. Because their bodies are unable to respond to certain male sex hormones (called androgens), they may have mostly female sex characteristics or signs of both male and female sexual development.”

Because of this, gender is not the primary identification of an individual’s identity. This in turn means that gender is rather an identity which is ever-changing in it’s nature. This construction is always done through physical attributes and changes as time goes by. Therefore one may

process of how we consider ourselves and the people around us as male and female by revealing

Gender is not simply what a person is but it’s something that a person does. It’s having an interaction with others; it’s a product of social interaction. Judith Butler mentions that gender is like a social ritual. Gender requires a performance that is repeated which in doing so establishes a public action that creates a stable identity from acts that are done publicly (Butler, 1990). In Judith Butlers, Gender Trouble (1990), she states, “The effect of gender is produced through the stylization of the body and, hence must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and styles of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self (Butler, 1990).” Gender is expressed in many ways: through our clothing, our speech, activities, hobbies, and our behaviors. Significantly, if gender were announced through acts that are internally irregular, then that would mean the appearance would be a constructed

This article brings to question why humans place such a big emphasis on gender. I wonder if this is a learned behavior or if it is something that we are born with. I always assumed that gender was something that was always such a big deal. As young children gender is given a great deal of importance. We are told to line up according to our gender, our whole wardrobe is decided based on our gender, and our names can be very gender specific. I think that part of the

I believe it is important to understand that gender and sex can not be used interchangeably because in doing so, not only is it incorrect but it means, as humans, we’re born, assigned a sex and then sent out to live a life that was chosen for us, which is definitely not the case. Because gender is flexible and never fixed, gender is questionably performed through an

The term ‘gender’ was coined by John Money in 1955: “Gender is used to signify all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself/herself as having the status of a boy or man, girl or woman, respectively” (Coleman and Money, 1991, 13). In