I’m not really good with blogs because I never know what to talk about. I know that we are supposed to discuss our class and how it relates to our life. We just got done studying about gender identity and its place in society. One of the main focuses was on transgender individuals in society. This chapter was quite interesting we saw a couple of YouTube videos and read many articles on the subject. Each one of these writings and videos had a unique way of stating facts and opinions on the subject.
There was a very nice poem written by Nellie Wong and her struggles growing up in America as an Asian-American. She talks about how in our American society there is a lot of emphasis on beauty as being white and blonde. I do not know if we will ever get over that stigma. But I guess that would take a lot of retraining of society to make them think something else. One of the articles was written by Anne Fausto-Sterling and her main focus was the emphasis that just having a male and female gender was not enough to meet society’s needs. She looks more into the fact that there needs to be a whole spectrum of “titles” for differences in gender. She lists things like male and female as well as hermaphrodites, pseudo hermaphrodites. Overall it was a pretty good group of reading and they touched on a lot of topics that many people would not dare touch. But I guess you have to have one brave soul out there to take that step or we would not have many of our advancements today.
