I believe that gender and sexuality are shaped by society, religion, environment, etc. As Judith Lorber passage suggested that gender is social constructed since we were born. And as time goes our society starts to change little by little which slowly changes the way of our thinking too such as now men can do women job and vise versa. It becomes more acceptable. There still is some thinking that always going to be there like dressing the babies with certain items to identify their gender. Is it important to label children that way? My answer would be no but it is just the way it supposed to be because I’ve seen, learned, and experienced things this way as I grow up.
Religion also plays the main role for sexuality. Hubbard stated that “To fulfill the Christian mandate, sexuality must be intended for procreation, and thus all forms of sexual expression and enjoyment other than heterosexuality are invalidated”. From one of south park episode where one of the children were misunderstood by his parents that he was bicurious, the parent were so furious with him and told him that he would go to hell. While where I came from, Thailand, the society is totally different than here. We are more open in exploring our sexuality as Sutirat said in the article “because Thai society and culture tend to be very sweet, very soft, and the men can be really feminine, if we tend to be gay, many of us tend to be transgender”. I think to give more freedom of thinking and exploring our sexuality is very important to identify ourselves. Sexuality should not make a different if you are gay, lesbian, or bisexual, we consider one person based the inside not the outside, “Don’t judge the book by its cover”.
Great examples and connections to the reading!
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