As we discussed in class, sex and gender are different even they used to refer the same thing in real life. As far as I know, we can classify sex in two ways. Sex is referred as 'male' and 'female' biologically. But gender is more like be the sexual orientation. We can classify it in many ways. It basically dependents on the attraction of people. People may attract to the same or opposite sex. Or they might feel like they would be more comfortable if they would born with another sex. But unlike what they think, society and culture might force them to be like themselves. Just like racism, people feel afraid for the things they don't fully understand. I think if the majority of the population was gay or transsexual, being straight would be caused the same problems that it caused for gay or transsexual people in the past. But I believe people are breaking those barriers now days. As it mentioned in the earlier posts, education will fix these judgments in society.
In class we also watched the movie 'Ma vie en rose' or ' My life is pink'. The movie was based on the difficulties that little Ludovic faced when he was trying to identify his gender. He sees himself a girl-boy and movie shows his attempts to become a boy due to pressure from his parents, neighbors and classmates. His parents forced to move away from the neighborhood and Ludovic expelled from school. His mother was so supportive at the begging and his father was mad. Somehow it change with time and his mother was blaming him for everything when his dad was trying to understand him. At the end, his parents were completely supporting him when they meet Christine's (a girl having same conflicts as Ludovic only the opposite) mother.
Ludovic is so young to predict his sexual orientation. He might be transsexual but he might be taking his mom or favorite TV show character Pam as a role model and that might cause he is more feminine boy. But I guess the main point in the movie was to show the difficulties that Ludovic is facing to find his true identity and how society reacts when they face with different and new things for them. The best thing will to understand and respect how people want to live and what they want to do.
Kivanc Yoruk
It's important to recognize the connections between gender and sexuality while still viewing each as a distinct category of analysis, as you do in this post when analyzing their connections to Ma Vie En Rose.
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