When you lift those "worries" of your mind, you concentrate on what's really important like good grades and paying attention in class. ... I was never told that I couldn't do something because of my gender and I got to grow up and learn among amazing and talented women who supported each other's success. ... When Jackson emphasizes society's "misrepresentations regarding the number of humans who do not conform to [society's] sexed expectations, intersex individuals are seen as 'outliers', 'mistakes'.... Being around girls at schoo...

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As common individuals, when we examine the nature of sexes we have an inclination to assume that males and females are the total opposite. We identify a person's sex as a judgment of their capacities and passions. ... It is important to realize how and why gender influences college achievement. ... Do you begin see a trend of a reflection of equality or are you now stuck at a two way street? ... For we have a percentage of students, male and female, who have done poorly in the past and now are on top of the achievement level; we have students who have done amazing in the past and now can&...

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I understand that sex is the most commonly used term in categorizing male or female, but is this different from gender and where does this assigning criteria derive from? ... Further more, what does this mean to the 2 sex dichotomy that we believe in when there are births of intersex children giving evidence of more than 2 sexes? I have already addressed the social construction of gender and now I am furthering this argument by challenging that sex is also a technoscientific social construction to maintain this 2 sex dichotomy and social norm. ... How do we go about this and who holds the r...

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" It's a difficult point to argue; in looking around, what's gleaned is how familiar this sounds (or appears) and how it continues to be driven home without obstacle through today's perfunctory media-driven landscape. ... The depiction of men in advertising, according to my observations of several men-targeted magazines, is quite different in almost every regard; where women are seen as sex-objects and/or artificial, men are portrayed as confident, self-reliant, and successful. ... "You change your style. ... The most apparent symbol on display in this ad is the all-t...

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Gender is a construct of society's stereotypes, and not the difference between someone having a penis or vagina. ... Same-sex couples are a great example of how stereotyped gender roles do not work when associated with someone's physical sex. Many people have heard terms like "masculine-, "feminine-, and "queen-. ... As a gay person trying to figure out the gender to which you belong could easily be one of the most extreme defining points of the meaning of gender. ... Even physically a same-sex relationship can be confusing merely for the reason that both members of the relations...

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Treise (et al) explains how, "It is often believed that "sex sells," however it does not do so without creating some controversy". (1994 pg.65) All this further goes to highlight the ideological issues in advertising and the problems and sexism in the way females are represented. ... Reading this adverts meanings can have multiple suggestions. ... You can see how advertising is ideologically problematic when you compare and contrast these two advertisements. ... The first example goes to show how sexualizing women and the sex sells mentality works and how damaging it can be to the...

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Politics also played a key role in showing how women and men are unequal. ... She did this after hearing a panel of superintendents boast about their programs for disadvantage boys, in disbelief she asked the men, " 'Couldn't you have classes and include both boys and girls?' ... " He said no and told her, "You guys deserve as much as we earn because you have to work harder than any of us.... Once Title IX was enacted the amendment faced many problems because schools did not know how to integrate it, how to use it or even how to interpret it at all whatsoever. .....

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I agree with his claim on power because all around the world you see countries controlling sex and sexuality; China's one child policy is an example of controlling sex for population purposes. ... Foucault does not understand why sex and sexuality has its own category for discussion, even though it just a natural human action, such as sleeping or breathing. ... In "Sexuality", Jeffrey Kripal explains just how important sex was to many different religious rituals; whether it was too much sex (ritual orgies), or the lack of sex (asceticism or celibacy), sex played an important role in relig...

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The key word in this definition is assumed; therefore, whether you are male or female, you know what role you must play in society. ... Children that are not raised by their parents do not end up as well as kids that are. ... Parents are, of course, not the only social agents to influence children's sex typing. ... No matter where you go, gender roles are always being pointed out among boys and girls. ... Bottom line is that men and women are different, and as a society and as parents being a boy or girl does not meet we have to fit into a certain box, as people are unique in of themselve...

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Both sexes are interested in how each is perceived how they communicate with others, and how other human beings respond to us. Humans are especially interested in communication with the opposite sex for several reasons; the main reason is we cannot experience the opposite sex firsthand. ... Men and women have distinct viewpoints and attitudes towards life, think differently, and therefore do not have the same notions of what is essential in communication. ... According to Tannen, men are traditionally looking for recognition and social domination; they see the world as a battlefield on which ...

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For many years discussions of sexuality were informed by a distinction between 'sex' and 'gender.' ... The distinction between sex and gender is therefore both ideological and misleading. ... It's ok on the radio, because you can't see them. ... And if they don't have a guitar, they become the dumb girl in front of the band. ... When ugly wimmin get left by some scrawny, spotty failed musician they blame the whole world but you couldn't give a shit because they sound so fucking whiningly horrible," Paul Lester (1992). ...

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Men have yet to appreciate a woman's worth, and the only way in which that will exist is if the man experiences, hands on, how demanding it really is to have patience. ... Woolf describes her career as a struggle because there is this constant awareness of what society expects her to write as opposed to "having a mind of your own, without expressing what you think to be the truth about human relations, morality, sex" (867). ... I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. ... Women do not have to be subjected to whatever society expects of them, and as a human being,...

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There are many different themes and lines of arguments; I have focused on three crucial subjects, The Validity and Reliability of Statistical Data, The Sex Role Theory and Biological and Psychological Reasonings. ... Sex is dependant on your anatomy and hormones in the body whereas gender is the role in which society has created which describes the characteristics that society believe we should have. ... Walklate believes that the validity is the more significant variable, because if you cannot verify the validity of a source, then the reliability is also in extreme doubt and is effectively ...

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Whether it is the money, the fame, the houses, the cars, or whatever, male athletes appear to have very few problems attracting members of the opposite sex. ... Probably not all too ironic, the reason for this again has to do very heavily with men. ... And while on the topic of tennis, how can we forget to mention Anna Kournikova. ... Gay athletes are rare in the sport world as a whole, although they do tend to proliferate in some particular sports. ... Perhaps the most acclaimed gay athlete of our time, Greg Louganis says that athletes in many sports have approached him on various occasio...

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In humans, men tend to exhibit lower levels of parental investment in offspring than women do (Low, 1989). ... The second component, sociosexual attitude, can be theorized as the evaluative nature concerning uncommitted sex. ... It contains open-ended blank questions such as "With how many different partners have you had sex on one and only occasion?... "How often do you fantasize about having sex with someone other than your current (most recent) dating partner?... This could be due to butch lesbian's higher levels of testosterones level, as well as higher number of sex partne...

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Indeed, the media is finally taking notice of how powerful, strong, and compelling female musicians are, but these incredibly iconic females are stealing the spotlight of other female artists who are doing what they can to erupt into the music industry. ... The club owners usually think you're a groupie when you show up early to load in or go backstage to chill, people tell you after the shows 'I thought that was gonna suck because you're a girl, but it didn't!,' and critics describe what you were wearing at the show as opposed to what you sounded like" Even for...

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" Lohan says, "They sat me down, literally before I was going to do the show and they said, 'you need to take care of yourself. We care about you too much, and we've seen too many people do this,' and I just started bawling. ... Sexual advertising is the media's way of showing off a product that does not exactly have a direct correlation to sex. ... Giving men a false sense of reality, having the belief in their head that they are automatically entitled to sex from a flirtatious girl, or that women enjoy being forced into unwanted sexual actions. ... We are const...

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He wanted to know what she was going to do with it. "Anh said, My son, this money will take you abroad to study. In America you will become a great engineer." ... Andrew expresses feelings of burden in relation to having more money than the Vietnamese people, and he is likewise treated with disdain for, "having the opportunity to leave," (137). ... Even women who her has no seemingly sexual interaction with, he makes a point to say how attractive they were and how he would flirt with them. ...

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In Kanner's article she writes about how men are expected to maintain this macho fazade. ... The gender of X does not matter to the other children, but because X liked dolls and wore overalls the parents cared. ... Yet, if these "cowboys of the new era" do not maintain a respectable social circle or have a pedigree from a institution for higher learning, they are looked upon by society as rejects. ... Everyone is caught up with the fine line distinction between what separates each sex. ... In Gould's article she claims that gender bending is over dramatized and that people should...

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Moreover, it does not allow women to enter the structure of authority and power as an equal member. ... But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ... The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of w...

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Plus, if you do not follow the rules of the blatant inequality presented up front you then you are seen as a deviant and then must be disciplined. Under the subtitle, The Variations in Gender Definitions, Kimmel states that "Mead was clear that sex differences were 'not something deeply biological, but rather were learned, and once learned, became part of the ideology that continued to perpetuate them'" (Page 299). Kimmel explains how he thinks that the differences that are associated with gender were not one hundred percent because of biological backgrounds but it had t...

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- Of course, Theoden says, "I need you to stay behind and to look after my kingdom. ... How can one define it to do it justice? ... Such a reader denounces and refuses to accept the cult of masculine virility and superiority that reduces woman to a sex object, a second sex, a submissive other. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... (ii) "Gynocriticism," - studying writings by women and examining the female ...

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As our group was brainstorming ideas for our presentation I said that I would do a brief history for this topic. ... Women in the movement have in most cases gone to great lengths to avoid discussion and confrontation with the issue of lesbianism. ... The first division of labor in pre-history was based on sex. ... Race, class, and national oppression came from men and have no place in a woman-identified revolution. ... It means ending your personal state in the male world so that you join women, individually and collectively in the struggle to end your oppression....

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Like many of Shakespeare's plays and poems, As You Like It explores a variety of different kinds of love between members of the same sex. ... In drawing on the motif of homoeroticism, As You Like It is influenced by the pastoral tradition, which typically contains elements of same-sex love. ... My desire (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth, And not all love to see you (though so much As might have drawn one to a longer voyage) My willing love, The rather by these arguments of fear, Set forth in your pursuit. ... In Act III scene 4, the audience sees how loy...

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These infants are also born drug-addicted causing them to be feverish, irritable, have trouble sleeping, have abnormally shrill cries, are less attentive to the environment, and their motor development is slow (Berk, 2013, p. 97). Marijuana exposure impacts the baby to have a smaller head size, to have attention, memory, and academic achievement difficulties, impulsive activity, depression, plus anger and aggression in childhood and adolescence (Berk, 2013, p. 97). ... When an infant acquires a new skill they need to refine it and figure out how incorporate it with other skills to reach a goa...

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