Srijana Bhandari Journal 2

Coming from a developing country, where most of the social roots are stills grounded by very conservative and religious beliefs, I get the term “Binary System” which has influenced by a large number of people. Not only the country I come from, but the concept of the binary system has influenced every single individual in this world. In the Binary system, males and females do not look beyond how they have been framed. For example, Male is masculine, are strong, are characterized by a certain kind of work which is just done by them and similar with a female, defined by term feminine, are weak and certain kind of work are just assigned and done by females.
The binary system does not give a place to the people who are transgender or develop the different characters than the society has specified what male characteristics should be or what characteristics females should have. So, the group of transgender and identities highly challenge the binary system.
I typically come from a family where we were assigned what we can do or what we cannot do because you are a girl or boy. I could literally list growing in the family where my parents had restricted me on so much stuff to do just because I was born a girl and I was not supposed to do those tasks. And I cannot deny the facts that “Abby Ferber (2009) has argues, how the social system produces differences between men and women and not the reverse.”
A system where transgender is not given any kind of place is typically a binary system.
This chapter does not only talk about the binary systems but also covers the other complexities of society formation: Race, sexualities, masculinity, etc.
We can see how a single individual life is based on all these complexions. We can find people who are still influenced by the binary system and living their life accordingly. I would like to add up a very common example on this, I was watching this series on Netflix “SPACE FORCE” there is an episode “It’s good to be back from the moon” where out of few characters, it specifically highlights the Black women who happen to travel to other groups to the Moon. In that scenario, what I observe as she was thinking about how she going to respond to the crowd back in the earth to be the only Black women traveling to the Moon for the first time. This was just a movie, but it was made on someone’s idea and concept. It was reel but definitely carries what our society has held up. I personally think, in the current era, though the majority of people have already started to think beyond what binary system has given the definition of social construct, somewhere in certain scenarios it still exists. Mostly, in developing countries where people cannot express their real emotions. Gender, race, identity, sexuality, all these terms were human creation, but it should not lead any kind of discrimination and hatred among the people. I believe, no matter what race you are, what sex you were born with, what gender qualities you grow up with you are identified as one -“Human” and have the right to live a dignified life.