Wednesday, February 18, 2009
GENDER and SEX
I thought the readings and today's lecture and discussion was very interesting. I am a "female" and "heterosexual" so the questions of being or wanting to look like another sex has never occurred to me to be a problem facing today's social definitions of gender and sex. I would think these online sites only allow people to choose between the two because they are catering to the majority. But then the minority should not be ignored as well. Hopefully a solution can be found such as broadening the gender/sex selection to make it more clear. This will definitely make people who are dating online much easier because they can clearly describe their sexuality.
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Funny thing. Today I was trying out a new MUD for our research project and when making a new account/character for the game I was asked choose my character's sex. I had the choice of male, female, or neuter/neutral. It's nice to have a third choice, but at the same time it doesn't feel like neutral covers all the other genders. It takes care of sex, but again this assumes that our sex equals our gender. Anyone else care to differ or agree?
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