In
reading Sexing the body, i felt angry
with the case of the Olympian who was denied entrance to the game because she
had a Y chromosome, the thought of that made me angry at how close minded our
society really was and what it may actually be. As a scientist, It baffles me
that the society can be so ignorant as to define being male or female as having
a particular sex organ and not having that, should disqualify an individual
from a particular sex. There are several variations and mutations in science
that can and have made it impossible to categorize the male or female based on
a particular sex organ!
I felt I
was in an internal conflict with as biology major and a cultural studies major,
and her tone and argument in the book didn't make it easier to lean on a
particular side without conflicting the other. At some point I really agreed
and flowed with her idea, the idea that why should one be either this or that?
Why can't one be both? Why should one be inherently homosexual or inherently
heterosexual? Why should one be inherently male or inherently female?
Compartmentalizing sexual identity or gender narrows ones possibilities in the
society, and continuously promotes inequality between gender, sexual
identities, depicting males as more important and heterosexual as the ideal
way.
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