Response Reflection: Please share an experience where binary sex…

Question Answered step-by-step Response Reflection: Please share an experience where binary sex… Response Reflection:Please share an experience where binary sex distinctions or the gender binary led to discrimination. For this discussion we will define binary sex distinctions as the biological identification of male or female and the gender binary as the social and culturally learned aspects of being assigned the status of “boy/man” or “girl/woman” that are often linked in an essentialist way to being assigned male and female. Students should:Share what happened (either as someone directly involved or as a witness)Evaluate the resources, opportunities or life chances that were limited through this interactionPost what macro-level dynamics, other than personal sexism or prejudice, contributed to this event (what were the social dynamics that contributed)Response Activity:As you move through your week use your sociological imagination to look for how the sex and/or gender binary is made visible in day-to-day life. Describe one particularly striking observational example.You could look for:unneeded segregated public spacesprinted or posted language that enforces the binaryevidence of commercial products that are “for men only/for women only” when this distinction is unnecessarythe “pink tax” (higher priced consumer items/services targeted towards women compared to similar products or services marketed to men)the idea of “feminine pollution” (that men should avoid anything associated with femininity)  Social Science Sociology SOCIOLOGY 5126 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)