Gender and Sexuality / Genre et la Sexualité

Gender and sexuality is such a broad topic that is everywhere we look. It's on our billboards on our advertisements and in our books. It's on applications for employment, school, and lisensing. The reading I chose was "Understanding Sexual Orientation," by Alfred C. Kinsey Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin. This reading caught my attention because its title had gave off and indication that sexuality is not yet understood. The reading was about sexuality and how there is heterosexual and homosexual, along with bisexuals. Most of the population is either homosexual or heterosexual. It specifies the distinct characteristics that unfortunately labels a man heterosexual and homosexual and this relates to Chapter 11, Gender and Sexuality in a way that the whole country, if not, the whole world is male dominated. The reading was interesting because it only spoke about the things that defined a man homosexual and barely spoke about the woman side of it and that's shows a bit of unjust between how the man is treated if he is defined homosexual, more than a woman. I believe it has to do with the fact that the world indeed is male dominated and such feminish behaviors are not to be displayed by men, maybe because the majority of men view women and their behavior as inferior.
       The chapter opens up with a story about a woman in a race in 1967, a time when the famous Boston Marathon was to be run by men, this woman named Katherine was able to "legally" participate and while running a man told her to "get out of my race!" Shoved and pushed her luckily her boyfriend was near her and allowed her to complete the race. It shows that women were inferior and although this gender issues are changing it's still visible today. The reading labeled heterosexual men as those we saw in the man-box video completely opposite to the behaviors homosexuals had and its as to say that men have two distinct populations when really there isn't. It backs up the ideology that not all things are black and white, big and small, and that nature does not deal or have a say in it. The human mind invents such categorization, gender, sexual preference, race, ethnicity—it isn't determined by Mother Nature but by us, we categorize ourselves and, thus, bear the unequalness.