This document contains two passages summarizing the student's views on their Gender and Society course. In the first passage, the student discusses how the course deepened their understanding of topics like human rights, gender equality, women's empowerment, and LGBTQ+ issues. They also reflect on how gender and sexuality are shaped by society. In the second passage, the student focuses specifically on LGBTQ+ issues, explaining the meaning of the acronym and how it provides identity and community for people exploring their gender and sexuality. They argue that LGBTQ+ people should be free to be who they are without judgment from others. Overall, the document reflects on how the course helped the student appreciate different identities and issues regarding gender in society.
This document contains two passages summarizing the student's views on their Gender and Society course. In the first passage, the student discusses how the course deepened their understanding of topics like human rights, gender equality, women's empowerment, and LGBTQ+ issues. They also reflect on how gender and sexuality are shaped by society. In the second passage, the student focuses specifically on LGBTQ+ issues, explaining the meaning of the acronym and how it provides identity and community for people exploring their gender and sexuality. They argue that LGBTQ+ people should be free to be who they are without judgment from others. Overall, the document reflects on how the course helped the student appreciate different identities and issues regarding gender in society.
This document contains two passages summarizing the student's views on their Gender and Society course. In the first passage, the student discusses how the course deepened their understanding of topics like human rights, gender equality, women's empowerment, and LGBTQ+ issues. They also reflect on how gender and sexuality are shaped by society. In the second passage, the student focuses specifically on LGBTQ+ issues, explaining the meaning of the acronym and how it provides identity and community for people exploring their gender and sexuality. They argue that LGBTQ+ people should be free to be who they are without judgment from others. Overall, the document reflects on how the course helped the student appreciate different identities and issues regarding gender in society.
Gender and sex has a lot to talk about as it is diverse and a complex topic. It is usually deeply personal where some people are uncomfortable to talk about it. There are a lot of issues in the society that argues over it and even being discussed by the church. The society was the one who has a big role on the development in our identities which affects our own thinking, what we believe, dress, and how we act, defining who we are and what we see ourselves. Human rights, gender equality, women empowerment, LGBTQ+, and laws against violence, discrimination, and sexual harassment deepen my understanding on how we take action about issues on gender in our society. Human rights advocates guaranteeing life, liberty, equality, and security, protects people against any abuse, and achieve equality and fairness without any regards to race, language, religion, sex, gender or other status. The same as gender equality which aims to eliminate discrimination between women and men roles in the society which people were used to know that men are more powerful than women, saying women were weak and should just stay at their houses, deprived from their own rights, therefore resulted to women empowerment. LGBTQ+ stands for all the communities of different genders and sexuality defining their own identity so that they will be identified as an individual in the society. The laws against violence, discrimination, and sexual harassment among different genders were already been implemented but still not sure if justice always prevails yet there are still victims of abuse, prejudice, rape, and other crimes that violates these kind of laws towards humanity. This simply explains how was gender and sexuality being described through different types of approaches and resolved by giving an important attention towards different individuals in our society. Gender and society helped me to understand how related the development of gender and sexuality in the society. It taught me how to appreciate and accept myself and other people with their own identity. For me, this course was helpful to give me an overall insight about what is happening within individuals that was having a difficulty in accepting their selves and trying to fit in in this judgmental society. It is an eye-opener and very educational as it was a common topic, but least understood and recognized by a lot of people. Final Exams in Gender and Society
Daquioag, Edriel V. January 13, 2021
BSAIS- 2A
My View about LGBTQ+
LGBTQ+ stands for all the communities of different gender and sexual orientations defining their own identity so that they will be identified as an individual in the society. They are group of people that wanted to encourage other gender and sexuality to fight for their rights and be free for being who they are. It was been first described as sexual revolution when a “thought” which insisted that those who identified as non-straight should have their own term. Gay and lesbian were the two gendered terms that became the norm (Pinknews.com). Yet homosexual or those people who is attracted to the same sex was also been defined but the people’s gender and sexual orientations are always changing and evolving, that’s why LGBTQ+ existed. With this acronym, it could give other people a chance to still find their true selves and identify what and who they really are. It serves as a hope for those people that feel so much different among others that can interact with their own identity to other identities confidently. These groups of initials were not just a “term” for what we call lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, but also a symbol that everyone deserves to show, recognize, and know their own selves. It also establishes a place where they know they belong in a category that was accepted by many and also supported by others to let them continue to freely expose their selves in the society. There is nothing wrong on the LGBTQ+ that others argue and disagreeing with, we should instead protect them and respect what they wanted to be, we don’t have the right to stop them for just they wanted to be accepted and loved with who they was. Generally, we are the ones who know more about ourselves, and interpretations and feelings about our own gender. It is just difficult when you feel like being different, but there is nothing wrong to feel that way, we are unique in our own ways. I realized that this taught me to understand more on other kinds or terms for gender, sex, and sexuality and respect them with who they are even if they are in the “more” category of female and male. We should also protect each other and fight for our rights as we are privilege and free. Everyone should be reminded that we are all worthy, simply, because we exists.