The author analyses the definition of sex and gender, by pointing out at those social attitudes that define the community understanding and perception of sex and gender. The author identifies this definition as one dependent on a masculine attitude that places a clear distinction between the male and the female. Sex, as a physiological attribute and as an act provides the basis through which the society continues to use to define roles, expectations and opportunities of either gender.
In this respect, the author points out to the misrepresentation adopted by feminist groups as destructive to the fight against the equality of gender. Instead of creating equality, the author claims that these “feminist” theories actually create a divide between the two genders, by critiquing one and upholding the other. The author, therefore, suggests that there is no real representation of either gender in articulating and agitating for one. Instead, it demands an inclusivity that accepts that the allocation of gender is not by choice but a matter of nature.
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The definition upon which gender should be based must not be founded on a defining context like “feminism,” rather it should be inclusive of already constructed perceptions, through providing a definition of what is intelligible sex. The identity of gender and sex must therefore not be based on social understanding and definition. Instead, this social understanding must be the basis upon which the deconstruction of rigid gender and sex definitions must be done.
The author concludes by stating that if we do not create social definitions and gender constructs then the allocation of gender roles, responsibilities and expectations will be absent. Consequentially, the already established gender and sex identities will not be used to define men and women. Rather, they will be used to perpetuate cooperation and remove the demeaning aspects that each gender has for ages been allocated.
