Introduction

According to the Ecology Global Network there are approximately 360,000 births per day in this world. When someone is born in a hospital one of the first things the doctors do is assign the child a sex based off of the biological parts present. From there the rest of the world takes over in making assumptions about the child’s gender based off of the assigned sex. As Sam Killerman said in The Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook: A Guide to Gender, “Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.” Gender is a socially constructed idea and often in this society it is assumed that one’s gender matches their assigned sex, or it is assumed that both of the previous match up with the individual’s gender expression. From there people also assume that one’s sexual or romantic orientations fit into neat normative boxes that coincide with gender expression and identity, and sex. In actuality though, these assumptions just are not reliable. With 360,000 births a day there will be some babies that are not born just male or female, there will be some babies that don’t identify as men or women, and there will be some babies that are not attracted to the opposite sex. The goal of this blog is to define and discuss a few of the many identities and orientations that people possess and to show that as a society we simplify topics we should not. There is beauty in diversity, so let’s shine a light upon it.


http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/

Monday, April 13, 2015

Sexual vs. Romantic Attraction

Many people do not realize that there is a difference between romantic and sexual attraction/orientation. If you are sexually attracted to someone, then you want to have a sexual relationship with them, while if you are romantically attracted to someone, you want to have an intimate romantic relationship with them. This is most easily understood in the instance of someone who is asexual, but not aromantic. This person would have no sexual attraction, or no desire to have sex with anyone, but still feel happy and content in a romantic relationship without sex. Just like there are many sexual orientations, so are there many romantic orientations. A woman may feel sexual attraction to both men and women, but only have the desire to enter into a serious relationship with women. In that case, she would be bisexual and homoromantic.

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