Judging A Book By Its Cover

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Judging A Book By Its Cover
Beginning as early as birth, children are taught to judge a book by its cover and yet they are told otherwise. They are taught that boys like blue and boys go pee- pee in the room with the stick figure wearing the pants. Whereas girls like pink and they wear the dresses. As they hit adolescents they learn that the Moms have breasts and the Dads have penises. However, as they begin to experience the “real world” they quickly realize that those lines aren’t so clear. Words such as Ambiguous Gender, Transvestites and Homosexuality are introduced and force them to disregard our past misconceptions of gender and sexuality and redefine them. So what makes up a “Man” and what makes up a “Woman”? More importantly, are the two sexes as opposite as black and white or is there a gray area in-between which society has been ignoring this whole time?
The Webster Dictionary defines a male as being the “sex that produces germ cells which fertilize the eggs of a female”. I don’t agree one bit. What about those men that have been dealt the unfortunate hand of cancer or some other situation that enables them to produce sperm? Are they any less then the man who impregnates several women a year? Likewise, a woman who cannot produce a mature egg is no less a woman then the
one who has produced millions of eggs. Some think that perhaps it is the personality that determines if one is a man or woman; one who chooses to act like a woman is a woman. If that were true then an individual who may have a penis and testicles that choose to
dress in a dress and be nurturing and emotional would be a woman… that doesn’t seem
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right either. Rather, it is combination of physical, emotional and spiritual factors that determines the sex. Society cannot determine what someone will identify himself or herself as. It is that individual that should determine whether society would identify them as a...