PHIL285.04

  After reading Judith Butler's "Proformative Acts and Gender Constitution" article it made me think about the role in which gender plays in our lives. It makes me wonder if gender is something that we as a society have defined or are we defining it by our biological bodies. I am of the opinion that our society has created what gender is. We set gender roles from a young age just with color. We expect that if a women is pregnant and having a male that the color associated is blue and if she is having a female that the color is pink. Our society tells us that girls play with barbies and guys play with action figures. This also goes with the way both men and women dress. Our society tells us that if women do not wear ball gowns and dresses and rather tries to wear a suit they are less of a women. This makes me so frustrated as and article of clothing, a color or even a toy should not define what is more "manly" or "womanly". America has put way to much e...

  If you have not listened to the the Ted Talk " I've  lived as a man  and a  woman . Here's what I learned" by Paula Stone then you need to do that immediately.  Paula Stone a transgender women who perfectly explains her experience transitioning from a man to a women and what she has learned along the way. She states that she did not know her privilege when she was a man because she never had to live as a women. When she transitioned she realized that privilege. I think that is so important because though we may not know what it is like to be a man or a women we are getting a prospective of how important it is for us as a society to treat everyone as equals.      It breaks my heart to read that in  a 2016-2017 Siena Student Climate Survey it was reported that 100% of Siena transgender students expressed that they had personally experienced bias/harassment/discrimination at our college.  When ...