Rhetorical Analysis Of The Gender Blur

The Gender Blur: Rhetorical Analysis

At first glance, The Gender Blur by author Deborah Blum, appears to be written over various aspects which contribute to several differences in gender. Upon further investigation, the true intention of the passage reveals to be an evocation of possibilities of the existence of having gender equality among the society of Blum’s readers.

At one point in the article, Marc Breedlove, a behavioral endocrinologist at the University of California at Berkeley, notes that there exist a lot of opportunities to influence gender difference in the society and everyone is born with certain predispositions but ultimately it is the societal impacts that result in these predispositions either being amplified or nullified. Although, this boils down to the aged old debate on nature versus nurture, but personally I would

It is a known fact that many females that take part actively in male dominated sports and games does end up developing male-like attributes such as muscular growth, deepened voice. This development in male-like attributes can be credited to the heighten production of testosterone in the females. However, the 20thcentury coined term, the sensitive new aged guys, clearly also shows the swaying away from the traditional concepts of how the outlook and actions of a male should be. This group of males, like suggested by the passage might be the resultant of a new generation of youths brought up in a less traditional family or an overly protected family. In both cases, one involves allowing the child to explore his sexuality by self exploration and does not clamp down on the child as how it would have been in a traditional family, when he is taking part in what was previously deemed as “girly” activities such as playing with kitchen toy