Metacognitive Reading Report # 1

Trainee: Rose Anne Malabanan Date: November 7 2019

Understanding the Self/
Pag-unawa sa Sarili

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Do We Need a Sex/Gender Distinction?

Topic/Lesson

1. Difficult Concepts (What concepts did you find difficult to understand?)

i. The concept that I find difficult to understand is the theses number 2 of Moira
Gatens wherein she stated in the theses number 2 that the sex/gender
distinction takes the body to neutral and passive, and equates the distinction
with a body/consciousness distinction
ii. The concept that I find difficult to understand is the suggestion of Moira
Gatens wherein she stated in the article that gender is to sex as the imaginary
body is to actual body and the concept of degendering.
iii. The concept that I find difficult to understand is the point of the distinction
number three wherein its stated in the article the battle against the biological
reductionism.
iv. The concept that I find difficult to understand is
2. Insights (What new insights or learnings did you gain in discussion/ activity?)

i. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that female and
male refers to one’s gender because I thought that there was no difference
between sex and gender. However, reading the article/understanding the
lesson, I now think/realize that female and male are refers to one’s sex. I learn
that gendered behaviors was not simply an expression of sex categories
related to the term sex roles, but a socially constructed set of practices layered
on top of a primitive biological base. Sex/gender distinction implies a radical
heteronomy of natural bodies and constructed genders with the
consequence that being female and being a woman are two different sorts
of being. I also learn that gender is a term that has psychological and cultural
rather than biological connotations. The proper term for sex is male and female
the corresponding terms for gender are masculine and feminine, these are
 being quite independent of biological sex. I realize also that sex is thought to
be more biological while gender is more on social.

ii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought sex/gender

distinction itself does commit to us to a view that there are only two genders or
two sexes However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now
think/realize that sex/gender distinction itself does not commit to us to a view
that there are only two genders or two sexes. It conceded that a classification
of more than t sexes would become possible. The view of gender as dimorphic
clearly influences the view of sexual classification as dimorphic. I learn that we
should view human sexual reproduction in the light of an account of general
biological reproduction, which is dimorphic. Also I learned that the distinction
is sometimes treated as a contrast between freedom and necessity but its not
essential to the distinction that it treat sex as totally given not subject to any
change, whereas gender is treated as totally open to change just like man
becomes gay and women becomes a lesbian.

iii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that we can
escape in our sex because concerning to the neutrality of the body which is
the female and male body. However, reading the article/understanding the
lesson, I now think/realize we cannot escape our sex because the body and
the mind are not distinct from each other in their forming of the subject (male
or female body). The body, from which we cannot escape, constantly affects
us. It is fixed in what it means to be the person we are, and it is essentially
destined in our gender. As the outcome, the same gender behaviors acted
out by two subjects of different sexes have different significance to both of us
and to the people around us. Everything we think and we do is saturated in the
cultural meaning of what it means to be sexed. As Moira Gatens stated in the
article that each gesture, attitude, perception, that enters human
consciousness, does so charged with significance that relate to all that has
gone before. I realize that we cannot simply forget the past, and this is precisely
what resocialization theorist aim to do. They plan to erase these social these
social personal significances to be a sexed subject.

3. Questions (What questions would you want answers for? Or vague areas you
want more explanations about?
i. I want more explanations about in the theses of sex and gender where in
the number five it stated that the body is always a situated body. The
question is what does situated body mean? How the body is always a
situated body?
ii. What is the cartesian model that’s is stated in the theses number two of
Moira Gatens?
iii. What is Philosophical Separatism?
iv. I want more explanation about degendering and regendering theory.