I just read this interesting comment: It is impossible to discriminate on the basis of sex if you can’t tell what sex a person is. In one famous psychology experiment, doctors would hand an infant to an unsuspecting volunteer in a room where they could be observed, and leave for a few minutes. The infants [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Intersexuality’
The need for sex categories
Posted in Defining, Gender, Identity, Intersexuality, Masculinity, Psychology, Science, Sexuality, tagged Babies, Experiment, Gender, Intersexuality on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Intersexuality and genital mutilation
Posted in Gender, Intersexuality, Medicine, Science, tagged Genital mutilation, Intersexuality, Medicine, Science on April 12, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Female circumcision (also known by the value-laden term female genital mutilation) is one of the practices that has been repeatedly used by the west to criticize and label Arabs, Muslims and Africans as barbaric, uncivilized and against female equality. First of all there is the fact that 1. not all Arabs perform it so it’s [...]
