Sam Killermann's Analysis

During his Ted Talk at UIUC, Sam Killermann talks about gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex. Biological is what we are given, gender identity is categories that define their identity, and gender expression shows masculinity or feminist or neutral features. In the current society, various of new gender identity forms and gets redefined since modern people freely express their identity of individuals. 37 states and the district of Colombia passed a law of approving homosexual marriage. Majority people are proponents of this new social marriage. However, opponents view this as a sin since it is against the norm. This new radical form of marriage and people is not revolution. It is the “step in marriage’s ongoing evolution” as

Since the rights and duties of women and men were clearly distinguished in the past. Wives depended on husbands and did wifey duties like households, which was the long believed role for women. Husbands had the power to control over all property like money and family including what wives brought in after the marriage. Husbands could not even give their rights to wives because the court said, “this will presuppose her separate existence.” Furthermore, in the early 19th century, the common belief about women was “women needed to be under male authority because they were more prone to sexual passion and religious error than men” which Coontz found. So men were patriarchal bosses who control everything. As time flows, the redefinition of gender was reconciled and in the 20th century, the right of individualities led people to choose who they love disregard of the gender, which caused the huge issue. Due to the old, firm ideas of separate gender roles, same-sex marriage was not accepted until two Minnesota men applied for a marriage license in 1970. They said, “We don’t play those kinds of roles” when they were asked who is the woman. Then few years later, Judge Vaughn Walker removed California’s Proposition of banning same-sex