We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.
It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.