Sex and Gender

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Karanvir Gill

I see gender "done" in many ways in my daily life. You can be a male or female, there are expectations. Since I am a male, I will talk about my gender is done in real life. If I do not dress nicely, then there is the perception that I am a lazy bum who does not care about proper etiquette. This is socially accepted in society because proper etiquette is associated with getting jobs. Also, big business's like banks do not have people wearing football jerseys, but suits. Gender is also seen when talking about physical activity. I am expected to be strong or fit. It is assumed that I can bench press 200 pounds and that I care about looking good, physically. I believe this is viewed positively and also ostracized in society. It is viewed positively because there is an issue of obesity in America, and 'fit' people, or people that put an effort into healthy eating which leads to good physical appearance. But this can also be viewed negatively as guys are pressured into getting the attractive 6-pack, which leads to crash dieting, and less self confidence in your body.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

In my daily life I see people going about there lives dressing as a girl or a boy. I see it as a normal thing and the majority of society sees it as a socially accepted display of gender. A man dresses like a man and a girl dresses like a girl. I don't see anything else that can be referred to as socially ostracized. A socially accepted display of gender is what I come across every day; a man dressing like a man and a girl dressing like a girl.

Weekly Participation

Jessica Creager

I see gender done in various ways in my own life. As a female, I am expected to participant in these gender roles. For example, I feel as I am expected to dress nicely, do my hair, and do my make-up. If I don't, it is interpreted as I don't care about myself and thus am not necessarily taken seriously, even if I am just going to class. I feel like if females dressed as relaxed as males do, we would definitely get those weird looks. Also, I do gender in my job and my volunteer position as well. I work in retail, a woman's clothing store, which is very stereotypical for a young woman. If I worked in a male dominated area, such as a hardware store, I would not get that same respect. It is also expected for females to be more caring and participate in volunteer work(my whole peer education team are females). I also feel in general, I am not allowed to express that I am stressed from all the things I have going on because I would just be criticized as weak or lazy. But if a male was to express these same difficulties, people would take his comments as more serious and would empathize.

Commenting on Weekly participation

Mr.Kubal,

I do not see a "pencil" under the blog, how do I go about responding to the classmates posts?

Kim Simonds

Simonds

Sociology Weekly Participation October 7, 2014-Doing Gender

Kimberly Simonds

As a female, in my daily life, "going gender" means that I have to clean the house, wash the clothes, make the meals while juggling my hectic school schedule in the process. My "work" week is Monday through Sunday, and typically starts at 5:30 am to 11:30 pm. My husband works a full time job, from 6 am to 2:30 pm Monday through Friday. Once he arrives home, his day is complete. That is all he expects to do. Most of society sees that my schedule is not work. It is what a woman is "supposed" to do, minus the school situation. I strongly feel that it is sturdily accepted by society. I have seen couples where it is completely different and the roles are reversed. This is going against the grain in how gender is done. I hear the low whispers of how the man of the relationship needs to take the upper hand and have his significant other do the "womanly chores."

Weekly Participation "Doing Gender" By Kim Simonds

class m/w @ 5:30-6:45

Margaret Klassen

I see gender "done" all the time in my everyday life. The biggest instance is my own life, I am a female and so I am expected of course to work and go to school , but I also get to come home and complete the second shift. My husband works and take a class or two and when he gets home he excepts me to cook and have the house clean while he gets to just sit around and watch t.v. Another example is my in-laws the mother cooks and cleans the whole house while the father watches t.v. and drinks beer , sure he mows the law and trims some of the bushes, but he usually just sits around. In my husbands family the women do all the cooking and cleaning , while the men do the yard work.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Eduardo Gutierrez

This week we were asked to give our interviewee a list of characteristics and to label them either masculine, feminine, or both. My interviewee was a female and when she rated them she seemed to connect more aggressive words to masculinity and more compassionate words to femininity. However, there were some words that she labeled feminine that I would have guessed she would have labeled masculine. Its possible that we view these characteristics differently for many different reasons. I feel our upbringings shape us. I was brought up with one older brother and my dad taught us the way "men" do things. However she was brought up with an older sister, and older brother, and a younger brother. She may have taken on roles and responsibilities as a middle child that would cause her to identify words of responsibility with feminism.

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

weekly participation- Lacey Missaghian

Weekly participation by Lacey Missaghian

This week for our in class interviews we were given a list of words and had to decipher if we felt they were masculine or feminine. I was both pleasantly surprised and disappointed. I was more pleasantly surprised with my interviewees responses. I didn't expect him to be so open minded and me to be so brainwashed by society and so ridged with my ideals. I feel like in this exercise I learned more about myself than who I was interviewing. For most responses we agreed but for others where I thought the obvious answer was one way of another he chose neutral. It did notice how some synonyms of happy had more if a feminine connotation than others. I actually really enjoyed the exercise this week!

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Ileana Corral

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Summary: In this Interview, I asked the interviewee if he thought that a specific list of vocabulary terms were feminine or masculine. They were to rate the term on a scale of 1-100 with 100 being feminine and 50 being both feminine and masculine and 1 being masculine. The interviewee did not specifically rate the term but they did rate it as masculine and feminine.

Jose Guerrero - Weekly Participation

This week in class we had to read out loud some words and they had to rate them on if they were feminine or masculine. My interviewee i think was open minded and gave her honest opinions about every question asked. She said her friends and family would have answered the questions just like she did.

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Eduardo Gutierrez

Allen

Anna Allen
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My interviewee and I looked over a list of traits and tried to decide which were "masculine" and which were "feminine." On a few, we disagreed slightly, but for the most part we were in concurrence that they were traits typically expressed in both males and females. In most, we identified those that were generally identified more with one gender or the other by society as a whole. The interviewee felt that traits like "helpful" and "moody" were more attributable to women than men, and also that "shy" and "unpredictable" could best be applied to men, rather than women. For the most part, the consensus was that the traits were more dependent upon individual personality than they were on gender.

This is in agreement with a lot of what was discussed in Chapter 4 of our textbooks, especially when talking about researchers like Gilligan, whose point was very similar to that of the author Kimmel when he says that there seem to be more differences among men and among women than there are between men and women. Gilligan is quoted in the book explaining that her findings were "'not based on any premise of inherent differences between the sexes, but solely on the different nature of their experiences'" (98).

A current event that I remembered when reading the text this week was a commercial for Wiserhood, in which a man, when trusted with his date's purse, puts it in a bag so that he will not be seen holding a feminine accessory, and is applauded by male onlookers. Not only is it reminiscent of the male bonding discussed in previous chapters, but it also hearkens to the table based on Terman's and Miles's M-F scale produced in The Authoritarian Personality. I remembered how the book describes those who are the least secure in their masculinity, and the sorts of behaviors in which they believed they would engage in order to maintain the appearance of masculinity.
Here is the link to the commercial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuScm9FZPmQ

Hernandez, Sara W/P #1

This week in class we were ask to read some words out to our interviewee and asked what they though in regards to feminine and masculine traits. The interviewee was asked to rate the words as followed, 100 totally feminine, 50 half masculine half feminine and 0 totally masculine. My interviewee answered fairly on mostly all the words, I could tell that he was a very open minded, and thoughtful person by some of the ratings on some of the words. However he did mention to me that he grew up with only women, and he said he was basing his answers of how his sisters and mom are.

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Weekly Participation - Erin Cavazos

Erin Cavazos

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This week we were given a list of words that we were supposed to ask our interviewee to rate on a scale of 0-100. 0 was totally masculine, 50 was equally masculine and feminine, and 100 was totally feminine. My interviewee was male and when presented with the list he did not rate anything totally masculine or totally feminine, so nothing was a 0 or 100. He did however say that some stuff was weighted as more masculine or more feminine. For example, he said that self-reliant was a 30 meaning that it was more masculine than feminine. He said that he believed this because of how society and media has put an emphasis on the need for men to be self-reliant. On the contrary he said that shy was more of an 80 to 75 because women tend to be shyer whereas men are more outspoken. He also gave independent a 50 because men have always been independent but know women are more determined to also be independent. Ultimately his friends and family would agree with most of his answers but of course there would also be some difference in opinions. These are just a few examples of the long list of words we discussed.

Public Opinion on Masculinity and Femininity

Weekly Participation

Ricardo Navarro

My interviewee is female and believed that masculinity and femininity mostly belonged to the common stereotype's. However, she did feel that these stereotypical answers are changing. When asked about being "shy" she gave the most insight into her thoughts. She felt that women were more scared to walk alone more than men and that men were more likely to go out alone. When men go out alone, they have a smaller chance of getting kidnapped. This causes women to become more shy when they are alone. When asked why, she said because society alters the way males and females think and grow. If it wasn't for soo many girls getting kidnapped when they are alone then they would not be so shy to walk home alone.

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Weekly Participation 10/5/2014

Brandon Guthier

Timothy Kubal

Weekly Participation

October 5, 2014

This week, the topic that we went over in class was about how some psychologists use a type of test to determine whether somebody is masculine or feminine based on certain types of traits they are asked about. Based on their responses, these psychologists believe that they are able to determine whether somebody is seen as being masculine or feminine. This week's interview lasted just over four minutes. Following the example set by the psychologists' survey experiment, I asked my interviewee what he thought about certain traits. Were they seen as masculine or feminine to this person? One particular answer I found interesting was that he believed the trait of loyalty was split 50-50 between masculine and feminine. He explained his reasoning by saying that in this generation, he has noticed that people of both sexes are not very loyal to one another.

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Sosse Kendoyan

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An interview was conducted on Monday September 29, 2014. The interview was a little bit different this time. For this interview I asked my interviewee about her opinion regarding how masculine and feminine are particular traits, and my interviewee rated them on a 100 point scale where 100 was totally feminine, 50 being half masculine, and 0 being totally masculine. According to my interviewee, she rated 100 for the following traits : helpful. defends own beliefs, moody, affectionate, unpredictable, cheerful, and sympathetic. Where as she scaled 0 for self reliant, shy, athletic, assertive, strong personality, forceful, willing to take risks, and secretive. The remaining 15 traits, which were the majority of the traits, she rated them 50. when I asked my interviewee why she rated accordingly, her response was that for her that's how she was raised, she's been taught that women should always be happy, and that's why she thinks that women are happier than men. Also, she mentioned that the reason why she rated men jealous was because of her past experiences with men. She thinks men are more jealous than women are. And finally, when I asked her opinion if her friends and family would answer differently to this questions, she said that yes they would most probably answer differently since everybody has his own belief and opinion nowadays.

Sosse Kendoyan

Stephanie Grieb Weekly Response

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This week's interview was a little bit different. We were to ask the interviewee to rate a list of traits from 0 to 100. 0 being completely masculine and 100 being completely feminine. I used the traits: Aggressive (0), shy (50), jealous (86), compassionate (50), leader (0), athletic (50), and independent (46). As shown as the ratings in parenthesis, there are some that the interviewee has rated as completely masculine, however, he did not rate any as completely feminine. I found this interesting because I chose some traits that are usually labeled as feminine like shy and compassionate and those were both rated as 50.

Cuevas

karla cuevas

When I asked my interviewee to rate the traits as relatively masculine or feminine on a 100 point scale with 100 being feminine 50 being half and 0 being masculine it became a little difficult to keep track so she was simply answering using masculine feminine or 50/50.

some of her responses were what you would expect from society to answer like athletic, assertive and forceful being masculine and happy, theatrical, and sensitive to other's needs being feminine. There were several responses like jealous, secretive, and truthful that fell in the middle when I asked the interviewee why she thought that jealous was both feminine and masculine she responded by saying because women are jealous too. If we look back in society when women didn't have a voice and male dominance was the social norm then some of these responses would have been either all masculine or all feminine with nothing falling down the middle.

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Weekly Participation

This week, my partner and I were asked to rate certain traits and characteristics as being either "masculine" or "feminine". We did so using a scale of 0 to 100: 0 being completely masculine, and 100 being completely feminine. As my interviewee went through the list, she would sometimes come up with an example to help illustrate whatever answer she gave. The interview progressed, and I noticed that my partner didn't give any of the traits extreme ratings; Most were within 15 points of the neutral 50. I found myself agreeing with most of her answers, as most of our generation has a kind of collective stereotyped idea about each characteristic. This is of course because society tells us so. We were unfortunately unable to get to the end of the questionnaire due to time scarcity.

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Quintanilla

Cynthia Quintanilla

I presented the interviewee with a list of traits which she would then label as feminine or masculine as seen through the eyes of society. The original question consisted of a rating scale of 1-100 but that proved to be less effective with the time allotted.

The interviewee labeled self-reliance, independence, powerful and things similar as male traits. She responded that feminine traits were more like flattery, jealousy, sensitive, caregiving, etc. In today's progressive age (slowly but surely) these words are becoming more unisex whereas in the past the word "self-reliant" would have been heavily and- more than likely- solely attributed to men.

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Nick Nakashian Weekly Participation

Nick Nakashian

In my interview, I presented my interviewee with a list of personality traits and on a scale of 0-10 (10 being most feminine and 0 being most masculine) my interviewee told me were the traits fell in line with gender. Many of the traits fell toward the middle, seeing them as either masculine or feminine, and the ones that went toward one extreme were the ones you would expect. My interviewee felt it was difficult to answer these questions because as a sociology major, she knows what is expected of the answers. She felt that it would be much more interesting to perform this type of interview with someone that is not familiar with this type of survey or even this branch of sociology in order to get a more honest outcome. In the chapter this week we went through gender roles and some of the sections tried to illustrate that gender is a product of the world around us, rather than innate biology we are born with. This survey tries to show that there are some characteristics to masculinity that society says are strictly masculine and strictly feminine.

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McDermott

Heather McDermott

When asked what she thought of particular traits she described what she believed to be masculine, feminine, or both. She said that defends own believes, cheerful, independent, shy, athleticism, theatrical, assertive, happy, strong personality, jealous, leadership ability, and truthful as being equal especially since times are changing. For self-reliant, she believed it was more feminine since there are a lot of single mothers nowadays, so getting married and having a husband isn't necessary in today's society. She said the conscientiousness would be more feminine, since we have to look feminine in society more so then men. Furthermore, she says that on the media you see these obese men with money and they always seem to have a really hot girlfriend so looks don't seem to matter as much since they'll always have money, but looks fade. She describes flatterable as more of a feminine trait, since she says that women can say things that make you feel good whereas with men it tends to backfire on them and comes out the wrong way. She thinks being unpredictable is more feminine, because if you know the man he's generally more predictable than a woman. Also, she believes being secretive is more of a woman's trait, since they know how to keep secrets really well and can be very sneaky. For yielding, helpful, affectionate, loyal, feminine, reliable, sympathetic, sensitive to other's needs, and understanding were other traits she described as being feminine. In regards to being moody, she described that as a masculine trait since men can be babies when it comes to certain things. Also, she describes forceful, willing to take risks, and makes decisions easily as more masculine traits. As for analytical, she couldn't decide whether she considered it to be more of a feminine trait or masculine one. When asked if her family and friends would respond the same way she did, she said that they probably wouldn't. Her reasoning behind this was because they all grew up differently and she believes that they would take a more traditional outlook on what's feminine and masculine compared to her newer outlook on how times are changing.

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Transcription

Self-reliant I would put more women just because the way society is nowadays. A lot of single mothers and the ideal that you're going to get married and have a husband that doesn't fit anymore. Then with more women being in college.
Yielding? Probably women, because women will sacrifice a lot.
Helpful is definitely women
Defends own believes is fifty-fifty
Cheerful fifty-fifty
Moody I'm going to say men too because men are little babies
Independent I'm going to say fifty fifty because you have those women who do it all for themselves and you have those men who do it all for themselves
Shy I'm going to say fifty fifty just because I've meet a lot of males who were really shy and I used to think oh the girls are shy but I've meet a lot of men who are shy and so it kind of changed
Conscientious I would say more women just because you have more need to be feminine I know men need to be masculine but you'll notice in the media that that fat guy always has that hot, beautiful, ridiculously hot girlfriend and he's like this fat blob with money. So I think women need to be more conscious in everything because that fat man will always have money but your look will fade.
Athleticism is definitely fifty-fifty nowadays
Affectionate that's probably more women
Theatrical is going to be fifty fifty because men get up there
Assertive would be about both equally
Flatterable I think flatterable would be more women, because women know how to say things to make you feel good and men have a way of saying things that always come out wrong
Happy would have to be fifty fifty because you have those people who're never happy or never satisfied and they're always looking for something
Strong personality would be fifty-fifty
Loyal I would say would be more women
Unpredictable women, men if you know the person they're predictable
Forceful definitely men
Feminine obviously women
Reliable women
Analytical I don't know about that one
Sympathetic is women
Jealous fifty-fifty
Leadership ability would probably be fifty-fifty
Sensitive to others needs women
Truthful fifty-fifty
Willing to take risks men
Understanding women
Secretive: men no women because women can keep those secrets that you never even knew about. Women are sneaky.
Makes decisions easily: men

Would your friends or family answer differently?

Honestly I don't know what my friends and family would answer just because we all have different, we all grew up differently and so I don't really know what my friends or family how they would answer I think that they're answers would be different than mine though. I think they'd think in the more traditional sense and I'm more newish.

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Class session September 29, 5:30p.m. to 6:45p.m.

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For this class participation we were asked to interview a classmate and ask them to assign a gender to a word/phrase/concept on the grading score of 100 being completely feminine, 0 being completely masculine and 50 being neutral or equally feminine and masculine. My interviewee responded in the above interview.

Sosa 9/29/2014

Álvaro Sosa

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On the 29 of September, 2014, my interviewee had to give her opinion on whether how masculine or feminine are some particular traits presented on the survey from class. Given the answers of my interviewee, one can conclude that for almost any particular trait one can find counter examples for which the rule is broken. In some of the traits the interviewee had no hesitation for the labeling of feminine or masculine for a given trait but this just means that she can conclude from her environment such trait as true for a specific gender because that is all she has seen or knows and thus does not considered the environments she hasn't seen. Thereby no trait is good reference for identifying gender. Traits are good for identifying roles as in the case when a (male) father is a single father and portrays an affectionate attribute which is most commonly seen as feminine. Although her answers are based on her believes and believes of the people around her, she is aware that those around her will disagree partially and when they coincide in some of the terms it may be due to a different reasoning. These stereotypical words are good for us to take an approach to get closer or away from people, but it is good to recognize that they are nothing more than bias assumptions; assumptions are necessary in almost any event but we must seek for truth and never use them to harm. I believe that these traits should not be used to incarcerate people but in a society of consumption as is the United States this incarceration of genders must happen for them (companies) to have easy targets.

Friday, October 3, 2014

Graves Weekly Participation

The interview this week involved rating different attributes as either more masculine or feminine. Our society tends to look at things very black and white. Boys are a certain way, and girls are another. Our socialization implants in our minds what we associate with being masculine or feminine. However, men and women can have many of the same attributes. This interview showed how we view different behaviors as gender specific. My interviewee seemed to be pretty open-minded, rarely giving any one trait a score of 100% masculine or feminine. It was interesting though that "strong" traits such as being independent and "willing to take risks" were thought of as mostly masculine to us. So called "weaker" traits such as being conscientious and yielding were almost completely feminine in our eyes. Why do women feel the need to stay in the background more and are more insecure with ourselves? Is this just ingrained in us from our society? It's hard to know, but the fact that both myself and my interviewee are women and we think of ourselves in that way says something.

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-Chelsea Graves

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Eskelsen Weekly Participation

This week's in-class activity involved the Bem Sex Role Inventory, a test designed to indicate if an individual has a masculine, feminine, or androgynous personality. I asked my interviewee, a female, if she deemed certain words as masculine, feminine, or both masculine and feminine. She identified seventeen words as feminine, ten words as masculine, and four words as both feminine and masculine. When asked why she thought "jealous" was both a feminine and masculine term, she explained that she has both female and male friends who can get jealous easily. When asked if her friends or family would view the word "jealous" in a different way, she said they most likely would because everyone has different interpretations of each of these words.

Cara Eskelsen

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Chapter 4 prompt is not working

Good Morning Mr. Kubal, the prompt for chapter 4 is not working, this is what it says when you click on the link......

Survey Is Not Live

Sorry, but the survey BSRI is not within the specified start and end dates, so you cannot take it at this time.

Thank you,
Kim Simonds

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Public Opinion Test “Testing Gender Traits” By: Kim Simonds

Before the interview begins, the interviewee is informed that the she was participating in a public opinion survey. The interviewee is a female. The interviewee answers: (I put her responses in categories) All the feminine words (worth 100 points) are self-reliant, hopeful, cheerful, and moody. The words that are masculine and feminine (50 points) are, yielding, independent, and athletic. Finally, the words that are masculine (worth 0 points) are defends own beliefs, and shy. I asked the interviewee, "Why did you answer the questions that way? Her response, because being moody and cheerful is more feminine. That defends own belief is more masculine. I asked her, "Would your friends and family answer the same way?" Her response was NO, that some women rely more on men, and that some women are self-reliant or more independent, which is more masculine.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Weekly Participation Interview

This weeks in class interview was about rating words as either masculine or feminine in attempts to understand public opinion. My partner was a female, as am I. And, I think surprisingly, we differed a good amount on each of our ratings. I realize I rated the words fairly stereotypically. For example, I rated the word athlete almost completely masculine as well as defends own belief. On the other hand, I admire my partners different outlook. On these words, she was more neutral and even rated defends own beliefs as mostly feminine. My partner would not be considered the "typical" feminine woman, but I believe that is something that I would like to strive for.

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Re: Practice In Class Interviews

Yes. But you don't have to submit them every week of the semester. Please consult the syllabus for details.

From: "Terese Riojas" <terese2009@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: tkubal@csufresno.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:57:28 PM
Subject: Practice In Class Interviews

Are we supposed to submit the practice interviews we do each week? Do they go towards our grade?

mw class@ 5:30-6:45pm

Margaret Klassen

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This week's interview was not a typical interview. It was more cut and dry answers, with little opinion. I read my interviewee a series of words and asked them weather they thought they were mainly feminine, masculine, or 50/50. My interviewee elaborated a little about why or why not they felt about a certain word, but for the most part it was a clear answer. The interview was interesting to see what words were perceived as feminine or masculine or even both. Most of the traditional words that were associated with femininity still seemed to remain the same, but most of the words associated with masculinity could be seen as both 50/50 .

Monday, September 29, 2014

Fw: Weekly Participation?

On Monday, September 29, 2014 1:38 PM, Timothy Kubal <tkubal@csufresno.edu> wrote:

Post to the blog by sending it to

tkubal2.2009.gender@blogger.com

From: "Pete Rice" <pete13371106@yahoo.com>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 1:12:41 PM
Subject: Weekly Participation

For this week, my partner and I discussed whether or not male circumcision and female genitalia mutilation is considered a human right violation. We both came to the consensus: female mutilation is absolutely a violation, whereas male circumcision can go both ways. The mutilation of female genitalia is meant to be oppressive to women. It is practiced so that women aren't able to enjoy sexual pleasure. This makes the inferior in countries where this takes place. It is exercised to control women. I honestly found it sickening that this act is practiced today. As for males, my partner was more or less against circumcision. Due to the fact that it is typically done at such an early age, this removes any chance for objection on the male's part. There are some advantages to having this done, whereas there aren't any advantages for having a woman's private parts mutilated.

Re: update

Note that I'm reposting this to the correct email address tkubal2.2009.gender@blogger.com

Also, note that you need to use your own icati account to record your interview.

From: "Sara Frazer" <saradfraz@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
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Interview 9/24/14 Sara Frazer

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Circumcision and Human Rights

Cara and I completely agreed about how devastating female circumcision is worldwide. We were both surprised that male circumcision is becoming less and less common in society. We feel that it is a violation of human rights to mutilate genitals especially to young children and babies who don't know any better. The fact that the U.S is the top country to perform in hospital circumcisions after birth to baby boys also surprised us. It is comforting that the rates are dropping from 95% in 1960 to only 54% today. Cara and I both agreed that if we were to have baby boys that we would wait until they're older to make that decision for themselves. I never really realized that it is a violation of human rights to give circumcisions to little boys without their consent. I've always believed that it was for medical and hygienic purposes that foreskins were cut off. We've always been more sympathetic toward the young women who've been cut, and never realized how it's the same for boys.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

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Lacey Missaghian

Weekly Participation: November 24th 2014

For this weeks interview the discussion was focused around the question of, Is female genital mutilation and male circumcision a humans' right abuse? After taking some time to understand how one could even relate female genitalia mutilation to male circumcision we came to the conclusion that we ourselves have a biased opinion on the subject. Male circumcision seems so normal in our culture that we don't even think twice about it where female genitalia mutilation, well I think speaks for itself. We do have to keep in mind that to some people female genitalia mutilation is done to preserve a woman's purity. After reading the story in our books about the Sudanese girl we both realized that though it seems so obviously horrifying and cruel that the mothers motives weren't to hurt her but to keep her clean. Being a mother myself I can completely understand wanting the best for your baby even if it hurts. I'm just so grateful that I live in the society I live in and I am educated to the degree that I can question and think rationally before performing life changing procedures such as that.

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Jose Guerrero

My interviewee said that it all depends on what culture you grew up in and what cultural beliefs you have if you think circumcision is against human rights. She said that what ever we practice here in the states compare what they due in a tribe in africa they might think it is cruel to what we do to our boys. but to us here is the states we see what they do and we think its not right and could be abusive to the kids. It all depends on your culture and beliefs.

Sosse Kendoyan

I conducted an interview on September 24^th and my question to my interviewee was: "Is circumcision of men and women a civil rights issue? " According to my interviewee, male circumcision might be a civil rights issue but at the same time male circumcisions are performed for medical reasons and cleanliness issues. As for the circumcision of females is definitely a human rights issue because female circumcision is strictly taking away women's sexual pleasure. She wanted to say that female circumcision is part of certain cultures, but that doesn't mean that it can't be a civil rights issue specially when circumcising a female they are not using anesthetics or sterile equipments, they're just chopping it off with a razor. Female circumcision is a civil rights issue.

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Weekly Participation: Female Circumcision

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In our discussion on whether female circumcision or male circumcision was a violation of human rights or if these ideas stemmed from ethnocentrism, we both agreed that the severity of female circumcision, and practices such as removing the clitoris in order to reduce sexual pleasure, make it sort of a human rights issue. The issue of non-consensual major surgery (especially when said surgery is elective, not a medical imperative) would be argued nowhere else. The girls involved are too young to consent, and the ritual itself is specifically in place to control female's bodies, to make sure they don't sleep with anyone before they're supposed to, and we both agreed that that makes it a human rights issue; it isn't just a ritual of initiation. It's a ritual in place to control female sexuality.

-Alexandrine Garcia

Weekly Participation

Brandon Guthier

Timothy Kubal

M/W 5:30-6:45pm

Sociology: Sex and Gender

September 28,2014

This week's conversation had to do with the topic of circumcision and whether or not it should be deemed as a human rights violation for people to be allowed to have one. In this week's interview, both my interviewee and I agreed that it was hard to pick a side on this topic at first. However, my interviewee eventually stated that he believed that it was a right that should be left up to the individual. He also pointed out that it could differ based on the person's age. For example, at a younger age, people are usually told by their parents or other family members the decisions they should make. This interviewee believed that this is not the case when you get older. As an adult, you should be allowed to make your own decisions. Therefore, my interviewee came to the conclusion that the allowance of circumcision should be a choice left up to the individual and not the government or society.

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Cuevas

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The interview question for my interviewee this week was is male circumcision and female genitals mutilation a human's right abuse? My interviewee replied by saying that she considers both of them to be a humans right abuse, but men circumcision is not as drastic as females genitals mutilation. Men circumcision is done for medical reasons it helps to prevent infections. Having a circumcision does not take away the sex pleasure. As for the women genital mutilation, there is no medical benefit out of it. My interviewee goes on to say that women get taken away the sex pleasure leaving them only as baby makers.

Quintanilla

Cynthia Quintanilla

Is male/female circumcision a human rights violation?

The person I interviewed felt that circumcising infant males was akin to taking away their life. Certainly they are alive but the choice was made for them. A part of them was taken away without consent. Yes, she believes male circumcision is a human rights violation. Female circumcision is done for more atrocious reasons. Not for hygienic reasons but to discourage women from having sex and only "succumbing" into temptation to procreate. The person interviewed felt that circumcision should be left to consenting adults.

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In class interview

During my in class interview the interviewee and I spoke about circumcision and if it is against human rights. Male circumcision was considered to keep the penis free from infection but my interviewee mentioned that in America we have fresh water and soap but it might work for a third world country where there are less resources. We also spoke about female circumcision. My interviewee said that it is against human rights while I said you can't judge a culture on their views because what they believe is righteous to their world view. We concluded that cultures are going to do what they believe is right unless it becomes a globally known issue and Westerners get involved. That westerners have a different view of what's right and wrong and will intervene if they have to. And that different cultures are gonna continue to practice their rituals.
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Álvaro Sosa

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Is female genital mutilation and male circumcision a humans' right abuse?

On September 24, 2014, my interviewee answered this question in following manner. "I think so. Yes, I would say yes for the most part." He said that he is little bit conflicted when it comes to male circumcision since the circumcision usually takes place when the male is a little baby and has no harm/outcome to the future sexual life of the baby other than a decrease in the possibilities of getting sexual diseases. My interviewee strongly believes that for the other case female genital mutilation (FGM), it is indeed a humans' right violation. FGM not only hurts the women physically but it truncates permanently her sexual life or what it could have been her future sexual life. The FGM has no actual proof to be done with a good justification. "FGM has a lot more examples of humans' right abuses where people are trying to control, degrade, and harm women. So I do call that a humans' right abuse." It is true what my interviewee says. These FGMs are a human's right abuse. Therefore to compare male circumcision with a female genital mutilation is out of the scheme. Male circumcision is not a humans' right violation but some men claim that because it is unnatural, it is an abuse. As a culture, male circumcision, is not an abuse but if done as in the book mentions that some tribes where afraid of one because they were practicing male circumcision on them when they are not part of their culture, then it is an abuse. Female genital mutilation has no true reasons to be perform on little girls, adolescents, or women and therefore it is straight out a humans' right abuse.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Heather McDermott, Participation

McDermott

When asked how she felt about male and female circumcision, my respondent replied that she never really thought about the male circumcision too much. She said that it's become so much a part of our culture and had religious and medical reasoning behind it that it's become the norm. She also pointed out that it's done in infancy and probably doesn't hurt them as much or they get over it faster compared to it being done during puberty. Furthermore, she stated that, although she doesn't know if there's any research on it, the foreskin doesn't really add or take away pleasure in any way. However, in regards to female circumcision she doesn't agree with it at all. She understands that people claim that that kind of attitude is ethnocentric since we don't understand the culture. But she says that if you go and ask those women what they think about it and if they don't like it or agree with it then how can it be ethnocentric? Her major reason why she doesn't agree with it is because the reason people give when doing it is to control the woman's sexual pleasure and ensure that they don't enjoy sex. On top of that, since it's not done in a medical facility or sterile environment and it's usually the tribal leader who picks up a piece of glass and does it, it can lead to serious infections within the woman's body. She doesn't believe others should get to decide on whether or not to circumcise any part of a woman's body, she especially, could never imagine someone doing something like that to her. This correlates with our current reading on how there are those in other cultures throughout the world who actively do female circumcisions and it's just a natural thing to do to their women to stop their promiscuity and see nothing wrong with their actions. There are those that see the "US perspective" of female circumcision as being a human rights abuse are just being ethnocentric and have no understanding of how their particular culture works or the reasons for why they do the things they do.

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Icati Transcription

Do you think that female and male circumcision is alright?

Well I definitely don't think that female circumcision is right. Just because of the reasons that they do it. They are saying in the reasons it's so the women don't get pleasure out of having intercourse and why should you be able to take something away from someone to begin with. The male circumcision I guess I just never thought about it. It's something that's been a part of our culture and it has religious reasons and they find medical reasoning behind it: the foreskin was fused, because mothers weren't cleaning it properly and then I guess it just became part of the culture, they never thought twice about it. But the female circumcision I mean everyone has something to say about that because of the main reasons, they say it right there, women aren't supposed to be able to enjoy sex.

I'm kind of back and forth on that one. It's like you said the female thing is not done when their babies and it's not done in a medical facility. Most of the time it's the tribe leader getting a piece of glass off the ground and just "sfft" so there's infection and it's not sanitary. It's so barbaric like we're taking this from you. With males it's, I don't know as far as I know the foreskin doesn't add pleasure or take away. I don't know if there's statistics, but I've never heard anything, but we all know with the clitoris there's sensation and they're saying they're taking it away so women won't want to have sex. So it's like why do you get to decide that?

I know people say we're ethnocentric and we don't know their culture and I guess there's a lot of cultures that can say that we as females are wrong, but I don't think in any way what they do to abuse young girls, I mean ok we're ethnocentric right so then go over there and ask the women and ask them "do you like that cut off of you?" "did you enjoy that?" "did you think that was nice?" and if they say no then how can we be ethnocentric? It's like with males saying they don't want it, I guess later on they get upset because their parents made that choice for you, but I don't think any woman would be ok with having something cut off of their bodies and their not under anesthesia it's going to hurt big, but with babies it's the same as giving shots and they take their blood and they poke them and pierce the baby's ears, there's a lot of things we do to babies that they don't like but it's for their own good. But doing something like that to a woman, I can't imagine having something done like that.

Mellott

Interviewer: Kalena Mellott

This week for the classroom interviews we were asking our interviewee (in a discussion type of interview) whether or not circumcision of men and women is a civil rights issue. During the discussion we talked about the book and also about the story of the young woman who was circumcised herself against her own wishes. While having this discussion interview the interviewee that I was talking to felt that circumcision of females was in fact a civil rights issue, due to the fact that there is no health benefit for the woman to be circumcised. However, circumcision of men was not a civil rights issue because the interviewee felt that it was done for a health concern. Furthermore, the discussion was brought up of the time in which the circumcisions take place on the female and the fact that it is done later in life. The interviewee felt that this was a problem because it causes a lot of problems. The interviewee further felt that while there are cultures who feel this is part of their culture, the interviewee could not understand how that could be used as a reason that they could do circumcisions on women.

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Response to Take Back The Night, Kim Simonds

Response to Eduardo Gutierrez

I really enjoyed your post; more so, because you are a male and the way you expressed how more men have to become aware of these issues. Not only for the sake of women, but that of a males as well. As stated in class and in our textbook, men also are victims of rape. Just imagine how hard it is for women to speak out, multiply that by 10 for males to speak out. I think that different educational institutions, especially in High School, this type of event would hopefully open the eyes of male and female students.

Friday, September 26, 2014

video summary of Dr. Money case -- the most famous botched circumcision in history

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This week in class we discussed whether someones sexual orientation is based on nature or nurture. We spoke about how gender expectations vary based on different cultures, and the inequality between the genders. One main thing that we discussed, and did an interview on was about Female circumcision. For the interview we asked our interviewee what they thought, and felt towards female circumcision. My interviewee though that if its for religious purposes then practicing female circumcision was who they are, and what they believed in, however he though that it was cruel, because of the way they did the circumcision. He mention to me that he didn't know that female circumcision took place, and honestly I wasn't aware that this ritual took place neither. My interviewee wondered what is the whole purpose people practiced female circumcision. He said that its wrong and that its cruelty towards innocent young girls that don't know or understand at that point in childhood, and have to go trough that pain.

weekly participation

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Stephanie Grieb

For the interview this week, we were asked to discuss between us and the interviewee whether circumcision for both male and female is a violation of human rights. The interviewee stated that it makes more sense for men to be circumcised than for women to be because she said that in a class she took, she learned that circumcision for men eliminates half the chances of them getting a disease because it makes it easier to clean whereas the female parts is self-cleaning so it violates women's rights to be circumcised because it isn't necessary; cultures only do this so they won't feel pleasure. However, circumcision doesn't take pleasure away from men; it actually helps them.

Weekly Participation

Stephanie Grieb

For the interview this week, we were asked to discuss between us and the interviewee whether circumcision for both male and female is a violation of human rights. The interviewee stated that it makes more sense for men to be circumcised than for women to be because she said that in a class she took, she learned that circumcision for men eliminates half the chances of them getting a disease because it makes it easier to clean whereas the female parts is self-cleaning so it violates women's rights to be circumcised because it is not necessary; cultures only do this so they won't feel pleasure. However, circumcision does not take pleasure away from men; it actually helps them.

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