Lets Talk About Sex
Let’s Talk about Sex When someone says the word “sex”, most people automatically jump to senses that person is talking about “sexual intercourse” don’t worry, everyone does it. In reality though sex is way more than just a three later word or the proper word for “getting it on”, more or less sex is defined by a noun, a verb and a thought. What other words pop into head when thinking about the word sex, a synonym for sex is gender. The definition of gender is the state of being male or female, so of course in our world today people link sex and gender together automatically. These are two powerful words and topics, which bring me to my articles, my linking throughout all of the articles was the concept of sex and gender roles in each articles. My finding was that even though each article spoke on a difference topic or theme, they each had to me the same underline thoughts throughout the articles which are, what are you? Who are you? And what are supposed to do?. In “The Five Sexes, Revisited” by Anne Fausto Sterling, the main topic was about there being more than just two categories of sex. Sterling focuses on speaking on the how society needs to be able to recognize more than just two sexes, and make a more complex system of gender roles and identities. She gives examples of the gender role theories going wrong, the surgically boy turned into a girl named “Joan” is good example, Joan played the role of a female in his childhood even though he was born as a male, later in life Joan now known as David rejected the girl he knew as himself has, an resulted back to his nature sex as an male, “John/Joan sought masculinizing medication and married a woman with children” (Sterling p153). In this example sex and gender roles didn’t match, David rejected his “female assignment” or gender given to live a life as his born sex . In “No Degree and No Way Back to the Middle” by Timothy Egan, the article focuses on middle class and a man role to keep the family