Baby Storm's Identity Analysis

For many years when an infant is born the baby’s announcement is placed in the newspaper with the enclosed information about the baby’s sex. The way one is born is how one should portray oneself to act. Do we stereotype gender? Legal Scholar, Patricia Williams, believes that society does. In Williams essay, “Are We Worried about Storm’s Identity – or Our Own?” supports her argument. Williams argument is productive because the story she written about a baby Storm in, “December 2011” (545) article demonstrated the backlash from the community and she used a personal experience when her son attended a nursery school, but she lacks to provide all the necessary information about the background story of baby Storm.

In the thesis, Williams, claims

Law and culture is a different matter from stereotyping gender identity. The only connection that Williams experiences is her personal story of her child and the story of baby Storm on the community’s response (545-546). William does have an idea about the culture background, but that does not make her a psychologist or a sexologist on stereotyping gender? Although, Williams used supporting details about the teacher’s response at the nursery school, the story about baby Storm, and expecting parents being eager to find out the sex of their baby, but she failed to incorporate additional information how society is lead up to gender identity obsession (546-547). There has to be many studies conducted on this relevant topic because it is a debatable issue, if society is consumed with stereotyping gender. However, Williams did not research the baby Storm’s story fully because there some opposing views that lead the reader to think how did the parent make the decision to withhold the baby’s gender? This was a question left out by Williams which hurt her because the reader needs to know what events took place to lead up to the decision of the parent’s to not disclose the baby’s gender. Which would of lead the reader

After, reading the passage a few times, the reader could not pinpoint a specific group because she wrote as if she was addressing the issue as a whole to all adults. The story Williams shared was brief and not in-depth (545-546). The story was short and to the point by adding her story and baby Storm’s story, but she made sure the title alone would catch someone’s attention by asking a question. The vocabulary used in the context was very educated and that signaled out to the reader that it would have not applied to young kids or teenagers. Where Williams lacked in areas of not providing a thorough research, she made up for how she used different writing techniques.

The author was very brilliant in using multiple techniques in her writing. Pathos was used almost all through her writing. She used emotion behind describing how the children at daycare “were so gosh-darned adorable” (Williams 545). In the article about baby Storm, the author used the word “unsettling” and “anxiety” to show the emotional impact on society (Williams 546-547). The author used emotion behind her writing to demonstrate how it effects people as a whole and for the reader to have that emotional connection to identify what society were