User:Tiannanand/sandbox

A Starting Point
I'm a little lost with this whole wiki thing. I don't really know what I was doing or how to work it! I want to do the Barbie, but I don't really have anything objective to say, so I'm going to stick with my mid term: Trusting my mid term because it was graded and I was somewhat objective. Going to try an put this in either, Intersex or Gender Distinction page.

''Seeing someone as male or female is something we all do unconsciously, we don’t give much important to one’s sex or gender as most people mindlessly use the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ interchangeably, unaware that they are not synonyms. Lynda Birke’s article In Pursuit of Difference explores the distinction between sex and gender. Sex refers to biological differences,“when a baby is born we allocate it to one sex or the other, on the basis of what the genitals look like.” (Birke 310) Sex is traditionally split into two categories, which we typically don’t have control over, you were either born a girl or born a boy and that’s decided by nature. “Culturally, we attach great importance to the existence of two, different, sexes: a child is brought up as either one or the other and we expect that everyone we will meet will be either male or female.” (310) It was found to be a problem as I further read in Anne Fausto-Sterling’s discussion of the consequences of intersex for the ways in which we theorize sex and gender, meaning biology isn’t always as unambiguous as simple dichotomy would imply. Intersex which is disregarded in society as a sex, refers to the group of people that don’t perfectly fall under the category or male or female. In the 1950’s doctors would perform surgeries on babies without informing the parents of the child because they didn’t want to add the the uncertainty of the parents and felt every baby should be either a male or a female. It is only after struggling to define the sex of these people that we deepened our definition of sex to biological differences along with external sex organs to also consider chromosomes, hormonal profiles and internal sex organs. So what does gender refer to if not male or female? “Gender is more usually applied to behavioral and social differences” (321) Birke’s article goes to explain that gender is a term to exemplify the attributes that a society or culture constitutes as masculine or feminine. Although your sex as male or female stands at a biological fact that is identical in any culture, what that specific sex means in reference to your gender role as a ‘woman’ or ‘man’ in society varies cross culturally according to what what things are considered to be masculine or feminine. ''

Contributions
Well I got taken down, so now 'm dissecting what I put up and just taking bits and pieces out of it! I'm throwing up onto the Gender page! As the closing sentence on the intro paragraph.

''Categorizing someone as male or female is something we all do unconsciously, we don’t give much important to one’s sex or gender as most people mindlessly use the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ interchangeably, unaware that they are not synonyms. ''

My First Experience
Well, I thought to be honest my edit was brilliant, however I got taken down the next day. Talked about discouragement. I'm going to reconstruct this sentance, I think it sounded to much like a person to an audience and not boring and monotone enough.

Contributions
Changed my sentence to this now

 The term 'sex' and 'gender' is used interchangeably as synonyms, when both terms have distinct meanings.

Not My Starting Point
Well, I got taken down yet AGAIN. So I must be doing something wrong because I looked on the history and it says vandalism I'm a little offended.

Contributions
Putting this little blurb on the gender page. Under the Social Construction part.

''Gender is a term to exemplify the attributes that a society or culture constitutes as masculine or feminine. Although your sex as male or female stands at a biological fact that is identical in any culture, what that specific sex means in reference to your gender role as a ‘woman’ or ‘man’ in society varies cross culturally according to what what things are considered to be masculine or feminine. ''

Success
It stayed up and I got so excited I decided to go back and edit this section of the page as it stated it needed more citations.

On A Roll With These Edits
The section of Social assignment and the idea of gender fluidity under the gender page, needed more citations, I thought I'd take advantage of this oppurtunity to put some wise words of Lynda Birke! Let's hope it stays up!

''Most societies have only two distinct, broad classes of gender roles, masculine and feminine, that correspond with the biological sexes of male and female. When a baby is born, society allocates the child to one sex or the other, on the basis of what the genitals look like.''

Starting To Like This Now
Really starting to enjoy wiki, because my posts are staying up. I think I first got taken down because I lacked a citation!

Check out my edits under Social Categories on the Gender Page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender#Social_categories

Getting Creative
Well, I really decided to take this to the next level. Instead of just addressing gender, sex and Intersex. I want to adress issue I have in society today, after learning about these issues, one of these happen to be questionnaires and survey's asking for gender and asking for you to check, male or female. Come on people, we all know gender refers to maculine and feminine NOT our "sex" which may be male, female OR intersex.

''Some questionnaires have questions addressing the participants gender. Seeing someone as male or female is something we all do unconsciously, we don’t give much important to one’s sex or gender as most people mindlessly use the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ interchangeably, unaware that they are not synonyms. [6] Gender is a term to exemplify the attributes that a society or culture constitutes as masculine or feminine. Although your sex as male or female stands at a biological fact that is identical in any culture, what that specific sex means in reference to your gender role as a ‘woman’ or ‘man’ in society varies cross culturally according to what what things are considered to be masculine or feminine. The survey question should really be what is your sex. Sex is traditionally split into two categories, which we typically don’t have control over, you were either born a girl or born a boy and that’s decided by nature. [7] There's also a population of the world that are Intersex which is disregarded in the North American society as a sex. Intersex refers to the group of people that don’t perfectly fall under the category or male or female. They are still a part of our community, however not many questionnaires have a box for people that fall under Intersex. [8] These are some small things that can be misinterpreted or ignored in questionnaires. ''

Peer Review
Alright Tianna, so I looked over your contribution regarding to the "Concerns with Questionnaires," and I liked how you chose a topic that was so simple, yet a topic that nobody in the class, except you decided to work on. This is such an interesting topic that potentially could have some sort of heated debate, so the fact that your posting is still standing up is quite unbelievable. I particularly favored this contribution because this post shows that you went above and beyond, you took a step into a path that no one has stepped onto. You put yourself out there, and well, that's courage. Tianna, you were able to keep a very formal and academic voice that appeals to an educated audience and you retained an unbiased point of view. You also were able to make a well-rounded argument between the difference of "sex" and "gender" and clearly distinguish the differences of the two. Although you did a really good job in your post, you do have minor grammatical mistakes, but those are really simple to fix.

check it out here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questionnaire#Concerns_with_questionnaires

Starting To Get it
I ADDED HYPERLINKS TODAY, yanoe when the words gets blue and you click it and it goes to another wiki page! That is called a hyperlink right? haha

Expert Wiki Editor
Now I'm an expert wiki editor because people have started attacking me because of my female name. AND ALSO BECAUSE I WAS THANKED BY EVERGREENFIR :)