Gender & Sexuality

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Chapter 11, “Gender and Sexuality” explains well how gender plays a role in our lives. It describes the biology and culture on “Sex and Gender”. When we are born we all can automatically be told what sex we are, either female or male. Now throughout the years, human beings can realize who they are attracted towards. According to chapter 11, people who are attracted to the same sex as their selves would be consider a homosexual. Throughout this course I can say that what I learned was that society has changed over time in some ways. For example back then seeing men or women kiss or hold hands was like a something that was looked down on. It was like a norm that no one should have gone behind and mate with someone of the same sex. But in today’s society I can say that now in some states you can get married of the same sex, which to me is that society has accepted it, if the law is allowing people to get married.  Now I walk around and even know some of my friends that like the same sex of themselves and most people around them accept it. In the chapter, something that did not surprise me at all was second shift , because I still see it happen in 90% of the marriages of my family, family friends.

Understanding Sexual Orientation written by Alfred C. Kinsey, in a section of this article basically describes what is believed of the “homosexual male”.  Like for instance how they sensitive, I believe the reason why it “commonly believed” of this, is because that’s what people think or maybe seen and assume everyone else that is homosexual are the same. The article also states how men might also be in contact with their opposite and same sex, which eventually is consider being bisexual according to chapter 11. According to the Kinsey he states that it’s us (the human beings) that we make up these categories. I stated previous of people being with their same sex before it was looked down on. Today it is not as much looked down on and thought of “disgusting”. Now I can say it’s more accepting because I do have friends that are a couple and it’s the same sex. According to the article when said that males that like the same sex is “hard to get along with” it’s just beliefs people have come up with. To be honest I for one and I can say more people can agree, having a male friend that is homosexual are just as laid back and cool to be around with. I actually never had an argument with my friend. In the second high school I attended you barely saw 2 men have a relationship. Why?. Well because it would have been seen very bad, and people in that high school cared what others thought. But when I attended my 3^rd high school in Manhattan I was in shock that I actually saw people holding hands, kissing, having a public relationship and I was surprised. The point I’m trying to make is that I agree with Kinsey, is that people do “invent categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes”. Basically why consider someone homosexual or heterosexual when according to Kinsey at a period time of people’s lives they actually try are both, or try.