MRR1
GED109 – Gender and Society
1. What are the three (3) things that you significantly learned from the reading? Please start
by saying ' Before reading the article, I used to think that (insert thought). After reading the
article, I now think that (insert thought)'.
- Before reading the article, I used to think that gender and sex have the same meaning since I
usually hear people say that they are the same. After reading the article, I now think that there
is a difference between them, sex refers to the biological attributes of the human and gender
refers to the psychological attribute of humans.
- Before reading the article, I used to think that degendering was solely concerned with
removing gender stereotypes and norms. It only focuses on changing a specific perception of
gender differences, as men can do what women can do and the same goes with women. After
reading the article, I now think that degendering does not necessarily imply eliminating gender
stereotypes but rather the ability to reconstruct them as a practical approach to society's
gender saturation.
- Before reading the article, I used to think that referring to people by their sex is better. After
reading the article, I now think that referring to people by their gender is better than referring
to people by their sex since each individual chooses gender while sex is their biological sexual
orientation after birth.
2. What three (3) things about the reading are unclear to you?
- I didn’t really get the part in the number 4 part of The Point of Distinction
- The number 6 part of The Point of Distinction
- Some parts in Objections to the Distinction
3. What three (3) questions that you want to ask about the reading?
- What does it mean by “The sex/gender distinction is not a distinction between the
unchangeable and the arbitrarily or readily changeable, and should not be taken either as a
distinction between the uncontrollable or unchangeably 'given' (sex) or the easily, indeed
trivially, changeable or controllable social category of gender”?
- What does the paragraphs in the point of distinction number 6 mean?
- What does the paragraphs in the point of distinction number 4 mean?