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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Also, the ethical aspects of this procedure and related issues will be explained and how this relates to a larger global problem regarding discrimination rather than simply a choice in westernized countries. To conclude, I will present my personal point of view weather or not gender selection is the right thing to do. ... In fact, technology has actually come this far and you can now find out the gender and now you can even choose the gender in a process called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). ... Consequently, as we all know, you can't have the good without the bad. ... Others...

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The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... Why you ask? ... Kilbourne does an excellent job convincing the viewer of the offensive attempts the advertising industry makes to suck you into buying their product. ... This is obviously true, because society does not have the desire...

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Male and Female sex is based on a set of characteristics and also have scientific proves. ... Understanding how male and female are sex dichotomy, there is also how society constitute the gender. ... Even the clothes, they do not want to floral and garish for boys. ... The sex dichotomy has already created the boundaries and also the pressure of society label of your gender through your sex when you were born. For some societies now, they still not accepted the gender that do not display their sex and act and get behaviors into the social norms. ...

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The sexes are different because their brains are different. (Moir, 1991) In the past ten years, there have been many researches concerning what makes the sexes different. ... The brain may look perfectly symmetrical at first glance but a more precise inspection will show you otherwise. ... While in a research done by Anne Moir, (Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women, 1991) she mentions specific characteristics that men have and woman do not and vice versa. Men have a very high spatial ability. ...

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This essay explains how woman are in need of people in their lives and how we do create stories in our minds that may be fairytale-like, but they do serve a purpose to us woman. ... When you are just a nude picture, in a sense, you are a sex object. ... I believe that if you do decide to engage in that type of business, where you are posing nude for pictures, stripping, or selling your body for sex, then yes, you are a sex object. ... He also discussed the use of posing nude and that it makes you a sex object. ... Women have to speak up for themselves and let the men know how they feel, in...

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For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... People were in same sex relationships and did not have to be concerned about harm happening to them. ... Basically means we have created a society that polices how we do things even at the elementary and younger level. ... " (Big Think) People who believe that how you born either as a male or female makes up your identity do not agree with a person deciding on who or what they are. ... The verse from the book of Jeremiah "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,...

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For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... People were in same sex relationships and did not have to be concerned about harm happening to them. ... Basically means we have created a society that polices how we do things even at the elementary and younger level. ... " (Big Think) People who believe that how you born either as a male or female makes up your identity do not agree with a person deciding on who or what they are. ... The verse from the book of Jeremiah "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,...

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Think about what you do everyday and how much of it relies on gender and then think about Toby. What public restroom do you go in? What kind of clothes do you wear? What store do you buy them in? What colors do you buy? ...

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Think about what you do everyday and how much of it relies on gender and then think about Toby. What public restroom do you go in? What kind of clothes do you wear? What store do you buy them in? What colors do you buy? ...

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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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How many times have you heard someone use one of these demeaning terms? How many times have you personally used these terms to describe an individual or how a person is acting? Do you ever really think about the connotation of the words you are using or whom they may offend? ... You can choose heterosexual or homosexual sex however you can not choose to whom you are attracted to. Sexual orientation is the same as eye color you get it and like it or not that is what you have. ...

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Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be challenged. ... Where does this leave one with the original question and does this evidence point towards a challenge to ones conception of gender identity? ... It would appear that homoerotic themes in As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., pp1591-1657) may well have been a reflection of how Shakespeare perceived the society of the day. ... He tends to perceive the romantic side of the play showing how different critics have widely varying ideas. ... The thought...

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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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Although differently, Lorelei Lee and Lara Croft exude sex appeal in what they wear, how they act, their facial expressions, and even how they walk. ... If you are Irish, you have a drinking problem. ... She is judged solely upon the way she looks, without ever given the chance to show how bright she may have been. ... Does she really love him? Or does she love his money? ...

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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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She does not have agency in order to make decisions or think about herself. ... And also, we have to separate sex, gender and body, too. ... For twenty-four hours at least, you can have a new hymen. ... "I'll have you bagged neat and tidy. ... Is that how to know another human being?...

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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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This example depicts how discrimination, even including sexism, can be taught. People's perceptions of race and sex are often relative to the culture they live in, and in that context, how it will be categorized. ... Not only do these woman have to be responsible for their own actions, but for the man's actions as well. ... Career women have also been big supporters of the equality of the sexes. ... Whatever you want to call it, femininity was lost. ...

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Because trans individuals do not fit the social norms of society they are often shunned and treated negatively and ostracized by those who are not aware of Gender Dysphoria. ... Although there are some negative situations like rejection from family and friends and feeling alone, as you read you will see that there are also positive experiences and relationships, especially in transgender youth. ... In another story that aired on 2020, we hear of a teenage couple who completely changed their identities from sex to another and how they fell in love, "Transgender Teens: What if a Girl were ...

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Since we live in a world that for a very long time up until recently, had only been observing of only two particular sexes; the male sex and female sex, there has forever been an ageless conflict and as one of my classmates so bluntly put it, "Men and women are eternal partners.... I have lived as a man. ... From the moment that you are born, you are assigned a sex. You are put into one of two categories, male or female and with there being nearly 7 billion people in the world and the projected population to only rise and reach 9.5 billion by the year 2050, I can kind of see where the gen...

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When you fill out an application for a credit card or even a survey there is one question that is always bound to jump up and out at you every time. ... It is reported that girls have a larger corpus callosum than boys do. ... The problem was that they were to go hunting for mammoth but they had to put together a plan on how they were going to do this. ... They do not have the vigor and risk-taking nature of the boys. ... He believes the teachers should not do things based on what they believe that particular sex is attuned to doing. ...

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The look you get when you have just committed an act of deviance. ... From the picture of Sandra Bullock to the article titles on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine, I could see how beauty was not on the inside, but solely on a need for recognition from the opposite sex. ... While another title read, "87 Sex Secrets You NEED to Know". ... Saying that what your significant other wears, is going to determine how you are looked at. ... The article went on to make fun of styles of clothing that men wore and put the blame on the women by saying, "How could you let your man do this?" ...

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Communication Differences Between Men and Women In The Workplace Have you ever noticed the variations in the way men and women communicate? ... Joe figures will have a fight. ... In Deborah Tannen's, 1990 book, "You Just Don't Understand," she stated, "Women at work often have different ways of creating authority in the way they talk, and their styles can be misinterpreted as a lack of confidence or as a lack of competence." ... How do we bridge the communication gap between men and women in the workplace? ... Being aware of the listening style differences in the opposite sex ...

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