"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong" (Richard Feynman)

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Rapping up on Gender: Group 5

One important aspect of gender is to note that it is socially constructed. It is not what was given to you at birth, that would be known as sex. Gender and sex are completely opposite things.

A lot of questions came up that we didn't get to address. For example if a woman had the courage to do "x" would that be considered to be manly? A few other questions came up asking what qualities should we assign to women and men. The simple answer is none, because if we do we are doing the exact thing society is doing. In our presentation our goal was to show the gender stereotypes and how to look beyond them.

The point we are trying to make is, whatever you consider yourself to be and whatever qualities you might have than that is what makes you a man or a woman. You can't let society define who you are otherwise you're not living for yourself.


Here's the video we showed during our presentation in case anyone wanted to watch it again!
Have a great summer!

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