Anaya Alcantara Discussion 4

After reading “Identity Terms”  the term that most describes me is  “Latino,” “Latin American,” “Latina,” “Latino/a,” “Latin@,” “Latinx” ” my parents are from the Dominican Republic and because I was born here I’m considered as a “Latin American”. As a Latina I do have an accent because I was raised out of the United States, but does that make me less than a Latin American or just a Latina? I would say that it is not like being born here does not have importance or validation, but I will always be considered as a Latina. At the end of the day, that’s how I grew up, considering myself as a Latina representing my roots, and where my parents and our roots came from.

One of the theories in the “Feminist Philosophy of Language” was “1.4 Sex Marketing” it really caught my eye, because it relates with a man being superior than a woman. In this case, pronouns cannot be used to represent an individual if you don’t know the sex of the person. Gender makes sex relevant, because when you think about it the first thing in your head is a man, us as woman became last in the conversation. On the other hand, the example that they provide us is great, because if we make gender a priority when it comes to this type of cases most of the time a male will be dominant all the time making females less in the conversation meaning that whoever wrote the book was a male due to the dominance it has by downplaying “person’s reproductive cells are the sort which produce ova” (3) to make another stand out. Moreover, if a female where the one writing, the review might not been as great as a female would like to but the book would have been a different perspective ana d very good book.