Merichel Almonte, Reading Reflection 2

Although I do not share all the arguments of Alok Vaid-Menon in his book “Beyond the Gender Binary” I liked it a lot because you teach us a new perspective of binaries and non-binaries.  The importance of speaking and teaching what genders are, that it is not about men and women.  As these social problems were created by the lack of knowledge and by cataloging the pardons in lines when we all deserve respect.  I share what Alok mentions when he says that by breaking the norms created by society regarding gender and stereotypes, it is possible to achieve greater acceptance of all and more peace between binary and non-binary.  The catalogs that have been created in society for years about what a woman has to do as she should dress to be identified as a woman and what a man should do, all this comes from the lack of knowledge due to the taboo that people had pigeonholing and discriminating others for thinking differently from their beliefs.  Like when a girl is judged for dressing in the clothes that she is supposed to be for men.  I always say that your physique or your way of dressing does not define who you are.

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