Nick Nakashian
Chapter 3 dealt with the idea of gender difference and gender inequality from culture to culture as well as the varying interpretation of gender in some cultures. In many cultures that have a strong presence of gender difference, sexual inequality usually followed with a male dominated and female suppressed society. In some African cultures where male dominance is high as well as sexual segregation, female circumcision is a commonly practiced ritual. During my interview my interviewee and myself discussed whether of not female circumcision was a practice that frankly should be practice. My interviewee felt that it served no purpose other than to further male dominance in the society and had no practical means, therefore should not be practiced. When asked I asked my interviewee if she felt it was ethnocentric to feel this way, she responded that if there was no real benefit to the procedure and it was causing these women harm (which it often does) then it transcends into a global humanity issue. Also the chapter discussed cultures that allow members to sometimes freely move between genders with a high respect for the act. However, here in American this is something that is often times not met with the same respect. Such is the case in a recent rule mandated by face book, which requires to use their legal names or face their profiles being deleted, this has been met with strong backlash from the drag queen stage community because their show names are often female and these men have developed personalities around their stage names.
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