Elinor Burkett's What Makes A Woman?

The quote of Simone de Beauvoir, “ One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” is saying that anyone can be a woman and is able to know more about women than a woman. Since we have different beliefs, we shouldn't judge people by the biology terms. Both news article authors are feminists and support of feminism, but they propose different perspectives on the word, woman. I agree with the quote because trans women are increasing in the community and receiving unfairness where also the change of society, cultures have a major effect on ideas and people's preference.

Discussing about women, Elinor Burkett, the author of "What Makes a Woman?" thinks extreme about how women should be,"...being a woman means having accrued certain experiences, endured certain indignities..."(Paragraph 13)It means women must go through some experiences to turn themselves to real women. This is not true because women are always benefited or helped by experiences instead men learn and enrich more knowledge about women

than women themselves. From Jill Filipovic, who wrote" What Makes a Woman Is Less Important Than What Makes a Feminist" in response to Burkett's article said that“...gender are culturally built and maintained rather than naturally existing doesn't make them less powerful.” ( Paragraph 4) That shows how relationships and community changed beliefs and hindered people to pursue what they want or who they will be. It is accurate because lots of men and women are unsatisfied of their genders, but culture influences and way of things work, made families and surroundings hard to understand why a man wants to be a woman or a woman wants to be a man.

When talking about trans women, Elinor Burkett shows her disapproval of Caitlyn Jenner, a famous transgender “People have live...whether Ms.

Jenner...shouldn't get to define us.” (Paragraph 9) It implies that she is resistant of being define by trans women and denied trans community. I think that is offensive to transgender people because their words can be wrong, but we can't ignore them from our community and hurts their feelings. However, Jill Filipovic in response to Burkett thinks Transgenders people are being discriminated. In the article, she said "...suffers the kind of violence and discrimination heaped on trans women should of course, make transgender rights a feminist issue." (Paragraph 13) That states how unfair trans people are treated and the needed support for trans women to be part of the women group. Even if trans women are not originated women, but their positive attitude and efforts should be appreciated and be recognized as the sign of society

change.