User:MFol2017/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gender binary

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I feel like this article may be the base understanding of gender for most people within our society. Because of the roles imposed on each gender, it is easy to assume that specific qualities and positions are taken up by a specific gender. Before examining issues of identity, I find it important to examine the basis from which most are beginning from.

Evaluate the article

 * There are a variety of reliable and peer-reviewed sources within this article, but a few stick out to me as possibly unreliable. These sources are from www.glbtq.com, as well as the article "Breaking down the gender stereotypes in kids clothing" from chicagotribune.com.
 * The leading section of this article lightly touches upon each of the sections in the piece: general aspects, gender binary as viewed by the LGBT community, as well as the limitations and rejection of this perspective of gender.
 * While being a shorter piece, this article includes mentions of the different gender identities and expression that live outside of the gender binary, being sure to show both sides of this classification. This article is also a branch of the LGBT topics series, so the choice to include the perspective and rejection of this topic makes sense.
 * The sources for this article come from a variety of dates, from 1993-2018. Most of these older sources are compiled along with more recent sources to create a definition or explain these classifications.
 * Some of the writing in the article feels unclear, such as when in the "limitations and rejections" section, the editor states how gender binarism impacts the healthcare approaches made towards those who are intersex. As these sentences are the last part of a paragraph detailing how colonization helped introduce gender binarism, as well as different power dynamics, the shift in topic feels sudden.
 * There are not a lot of visual aides to this article. As they mention one or two pairs of gender identities, roles, and attributes, I feel it would be more helpful for a chart or diagram showing these roles could be beneficial.
 * There are discussions about the article's amount of bias in regards to what adheres to the gender binary, including Christianity, as well as the enforcing of it by the patriarcy. Another editor also discusses how gender binary and genderism can possibly be merged, because they are discussing the same idea.
 * We haven't talked about the gender binary as much in class, but we have discussed the way that colonization and the patriarchy has created unbalanced power structures, as well as the designation of worth and value by oppressors to the oppressed culture.
 * The article's strengths are in the way that it works hard to define the structures that come from the gender binary, and transition from the lead section to the following categories.
 * I feel like this article is a little underdeveloped, as it lightly touches the ways different cultures percieve gender, as well as the way the gender binary affects marginalized groups. Further expansion on these topics can easily strengthen the information given by this article.