Alexander Questions

 

Questions for Journaling & Discussing

6.  As Alexander states in his article there are restrictions of everything including people. There is so much diversity in the world it is hard not limit or restrict your writing in some ways. Male and female restrictions obviously happen because social perception has made gender such a huge separation. This separation effects the writing by, limiting creativity and presenting a “sexed” and stereotypical view of men and women.  This gives writing a fake aspect, denying the true and real characterizes to readers. We need to expand and respect more neutral general texts. You cannot focus on the of the gender of the writer and not be bias to the piece.  This knowledge can be used to take these sharp visions of transgender to expand and understand the narration of gender. An experiment of Trans pedagogy in transition presenting limitations on writing. First, in deconstructs the male/female binary-one of the most pervasive modes of meaning making in our culture. Second, in deconstruction this binary, trans sites powerfully revel gender as a social construction- as a narration that rhetorically, and politically, uses gender to maintain categories, roles, and knowledge that delimit and police our bodies and identities. By examining stories students have wrote shows many more of real life examples of accepting Trans gender writing and how it opens up the world of writing so much more.

7. These student writing help to define even more how student narratives reinforce gender stereotypes. In “Mr. Football” written by two females, shows stereotypical examples of a buff and stupid football player. He ends up getting hurt by stepping on a jelly fish and, only focuses on get back to playing football. They don’t add any examples of him maybe likening shopping or even cod, to add a real aspect to this gender. There are also examples of gender stereotypes in “Scarlet” written to a male. It is a about a very pretty girl who gets into this dark and mysterious life style. This gives her the innocent girl who has broken into stereotypical bad girl lifestyle.  A Similar example to this is in a student narrative called “Amanda” by a male.

Applying and Exploring

3.  According to Alexander the presents of the transgendered is beneficial everyone within a composition class. This will bring students out of there social “norms” and interrogate the constructs of gender that we often take for granted as “natural” or “normal.” This not only alerts others to the presence of differently gendered people, but also to examine critically how gender limits our potential sense of self. This will expose the harmful myths around what it means to be a woman or a man. Many trans theorists have been inspired to think along such lines after considering the work of queer theorist Judith Butler, whose notion of gender performativity has been a useful if contentious approach to thinking critically about gender. There is no need to be no gender identity behind the expression of gender. There is need to denaturalize the sense of “gender” and is not essential but, rather a sociocultural construct where masculinity and femininity have come to appear natural.