Lorber's Night To His Day

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Lorber argues that it possible to strive for genderless society. Based on Lober work “Night to his Day” sexuality and gender is socially constructed. Is it really possible to have a non gender society? In order to understand the how gender and sexuality are associated with a person identity, we need to define the term sex and gender. Sex is biological ,it the physical sex organs one is born with. Gender, on the other hand, is more associated with society and parental influence. Gender is an identity that people identified with. Because their no boundary to how people can take a turn on gender identity. Because Lorber view gender identity and sexuality associated more with socially aspect that it gave her the impression that the biology behind …show more content…

Gender and sexuality is two completely different thing. In fact I have to argue that Lorber and Jhally is wrong to to view socialization as the only theory that best explains gender. According to Jhally explanation in the video “ Gender coded” gender is social construct and is useful for stressing the aspect of femininity and masculinity . In the video Jhally claim that there is nothing natural about gender identity. It confine with gender norm. Later in the video, he explain that “ women were use to ease and remove the idea of homosexual from male. And male and female are defined through each other” (code of gender). Women are weak, vulnerable, mental drifting and emotional. While men are strong, more relax,calm, active, and are emotionless. Femininity is viewed as submissive/ powerless female, who present themselves according to society's standards. Unlike masculinity that dominant gender norm. Gender’s critical view like Lorber and Jhally act as a disadvantage to analysis because they’re missing out on the biological view. As Jhally mention men are women are defined through each other. Social construct is just the image use for display. Biology behide a person sexaulity can not be ingore. Both biological and social construct contritute to a person sexuliaty there for it unreasonably to strive for non gender …show more content…

Gender specialist might argue that biological aspect didn’t really contribute to a person’s identity except for people’s sexulaity. Which others may agree that social influences contribute to people's behavior and how they define themselves based on the surrounding around them. I acknowledge that gender roles does influence a person personalities. But it takes more than just socially influences to determine one's identities. According to Harris, “Considering the case of the opposite sex identical twin: he was told he was a girl but he didn’t feel like a girl”(208). The boys felt that he was never himself. Harris is saying that children understand who they are without being taught. Depending on the situation, biological or social factor will impact a person's identity more than the other. From what I see , social construct is only part of a story. For example, CeCe Mcdonald transformation story of her transforming into a women, socially constructed her identity as a female. The way McDonald present herself as a child growing up and enjoying do girly thing is the result of what she define as later in life. Although Cece identified as a woman her biological sex is use to determine which prison cell they put her in. In this situation her biological sex was use to determine her sexuality. And Mcdonald was put in

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