Gender Revolution Reflection

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Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric was a great documentary about gender and sex and how things seem to be changing in our everyday society. As it was said by a student in the documentary, and also backed up with evidence from ancient times, things aren’t necessarily changing or new but people are becoming more open about who they are as society becomes more accepting little by little. I enjoyed this documentary and it helped shed light on some things I didn’t know but it also helped me reaffirm my beliefs in how I feel on these subjects. I had some mixed reactions throughout the documentary, the most prevalent and basic reactions and emotions I had were anger, sadness, and happiness. The biggest reaction I had to some parts of this documentary was anger, and it was a lot more than just that simple word. My feelings could also be described as furious, fuming, infuriated, enraged and many other words that I will not continue to list since by now you should know how I felt. One of the first things that really provoked these emotions was when they talked about intersex babies and adults. These babies were born different than “normal” babies and therefore doctors and parents made decisions to do surgery to either make the baby a girl or boy and raise it as so. The problem with this is that the baby didn’t have their voice heard, and I understand that babies cannot talk, but the parents should have waited until the child could make a decision. Douglas was raised as a

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