Sosa

Álvaro Sosa

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On September 17, my interviewee responded to the question: "Is gender biologically or socially learned?" She said that she believes that gender is a mixture of both biological and social interactions. Biological because among the sexes and while developing the internal genitalia produces different chemicals that make women or men to identify themselves with those who experience that same chemical reactions but that is too simple to be true, and thus the social interaction among men and women is another variable to be consider. I also believe that society or the close institutions in our society have an impact in the formation of gender because they have existed before us and thus usually follow a pattern that may or may not change among generations. Even when humans have created the definitions of a men and women, it seems that after some point in time the definitions create us and thus we no longer define them.