Gender-neutral toilet

Sexual dimorphism in body size between males and females helps contribute to both natural and sexual selection for reproductive advantage. However, it is not known why these differences exist in most species and how it may be controlled. Several case studies were performed on Sceloporus lizards, including those of male-larger species and female-larger species, as well as the Western diamond-backed rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, which is a male-larger species. The main question revolves around…

The feminism in China after Chinese economic reform Yangweihong Liu According to Feminism (June, 2007, p.5), feminism is “a recognition of an imbalance of power between the sexes, with women in a subordinate role to men”. It is a term that women fight for their right. From global aspect, feminism was founded in later 18 centuries during and after the French revolution. Since that time, the world began to realize the raising power of women and their equal power. Women show their power by abandon…

One could say that the majority of the population usually associate gender with sex, however, gender and sex are quite distinct from one another. According to the text, gender are acceptable roles or behaviors that are established within each societies that are delegated to males and females that are sometimes according to their specific sex. It is basically behavioral rules and regulations that are installed in society that are deemed the norm. Sex on the other hand is the biological…

Society today is no better than what it was back then. Yes, some things have improved, but people’s thoughts and actions are still the same. People have the same views that if one person does something bad, then all of a certain race, religion, or gender is the same. Right now, sexism is a big one in our country. Sexism is prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women on the basis of sex. Men still believe that they are superior to women and our new president, Mr. Donald…

protect oneself from potential harm. It is also human instinct to hide one’s vulnerability from others out of fear of those vulnerabilities being used against them. In Russell Banks’s short story “Lobster Night” he explores the relationship between gender politics, survival, and vulnerability when Stacy and Noonan reveal personal stories of weakness and survival to each other. Despite this newfound connection built between the two characters when both Stacy and Noonan expose their vulnerability,…

Gender roles and stereotypes have always been an issue in society, and they still are to this day. Although feminism and woman’s rights have come so far in the past years, there is still more progress to be made and the sexist labels do not only happen to women. Having gender stereotypes, that begin when we are young, creates the platform for many of these sexist issues that women, as well as men, are still facing. The article “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls” written by Katha Pollitt expresses…

Transgender is a term that describes people who have Gender Dysphoria, new term for Gender Identity Disorder (Butcher, Hooley, & Mineka, 2013; Altilio, & Otis-Green, 2011). Uniquely as the word transgender has become a descriptive definition to describe or define a population of marginalized individuals, who may potentially develop anxiety, depression, restlessness, and other symptoms as a result of their disorder. The social construct of sex and gender has become controversial as it is an…

of these counter-hegemonic social movements failed to include minority women in their conversations because they lacked intersectionality, or the ability to provide comprehensive analysis of social issues through the inclusion of race, class, and gender. In “La Femenista”, Gomez introduces and defines sexist racism as the social and economic oppressions imposed upon the Chicanas, maintained and reinforced by the misrepresentation of the Chicana women being “passive, apolitical and illiterate” in…

throughout the story. Because of the gender inequalities throughout Ireland at the time, Albert Nobbs was forced to make several decisions including: faking to be a man, living a lonely and very independent life, and trying to find a wife. The gender inequality forced Albert Nobbs to fake her gender as a man, so she could land a job as a waiter at Morrison’s Hotel and survive in nineteenth century Dublin. There were several downsides to having to stay secretive about her gender, while the only…

babies are born, is the instant which they are exposed to the binary gender system that rules today’s contemporary society. There are set expectations and attributes given to each gender (female and male) that are being practiced on a daily basis, which leaves no flexible space for the gender system to include other people who define themselves other than the two dominant genders. When people are not perfectly placed in one gender or the other, then as Judith Lorber stated, “we feel socially…