User:RM395/Course/Manypedia/Gender

English - Chinese Comparison

First interesting thing I noticed that was different was the frequent words at the top of the page. The Chinese page had English, French, Latin, Identity, Queer. The US page had none of these things and focused more on women, feminist, and then quite a few influential people to the feminist movement. The Chinese article at the very beginning calls it sex (gender). The English article first introduces how the word was traditionally used and then talks about how sociologists today exclusively use gender for a person's social role, NOT for their biological sex. The Chinese article does however mention that gender is very complex and is not a simple dichotomy, like most people believe. This is up keeping with the current sociological views on gender. The Chinese article is only a fraction of the size of the US article and doesn't cover in depth all of the recent sociological distinctions and discoveries that have been made.

I chose gender because I knew it can be fairly controversial and I chose to compare it with Chinese because I know that they can have fairly sexist beliefs.

I was actually surprised that the Chinese article mentioned that gender is complex and not a dichotomy, that really caught me off guard. They also made examples about how a male with a female temperament would be shunned from society. Incidentally they didn't mention how a female with a masculine temperament would be shunned from society which could be because masculine traits are considered superior to feminine traits and thus a female acting with masculine traits has the possibility of being celebrated.

--MartellRedViper (talk) 12:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)