Comments on Gender

This presentation was very interesting as I enjoy hearing thoughts on gender because it is commonly viewed as such a restrictive thing. People tend to be bipolar in their understandings and the way we approach gender as shows this. Generally, when a child is born we consider it either a boy or girl. This is simply not the case scientifically speaking. Most of us do fall into one of these categories but as much as 1 in 5 children can be born unisex or in any state contrary to our normal definitions. The way we handle such people is appalling at best as the arguments used in the justification of sexism for men and women pale in comparison.

To be honest, what makes us who we are is at best a personal choice. There are men who believe they are women and vice versa. The traditional confines of gender no longer apply and the restrictions we place on ourselves are being lifted with new technology and forms of support. Our conceptions of gender show how willingly we accept things without understanding them fully and how in doing so we ostracize and limit ourselves. We need to remove our outdated thought patterns and to begin taking the world for what it is. If we are able to this we will then find the world to be exceedingly interesting.