Summary Of Are We Worried About Storms Identify Or Our Own By Patricia Williams

Analytical Summary

“Are We Worried About Storms Identify or Our Own” by Patricia j Williams uses the child’s gender complexity issues of the parent’s decision not to release the gender once born to ask a philosophical question to people who feel that they must know a person’s gender. Patricia j Williams feels that the label of a gender should not be a crucial issue in the world that we live in today. She feels that the world should become less gender oriented in todays world. People talk all the time about how we should not categorize by gender, but as soon as someone attempts to erase gender ideals the world goes into an uproar.

The author starts the story by telling a story of one of her children’s days in school which is way of validating her statements on child gender. Her starting the story

She mentions how us people always judge others based on their gender. In her personal story, her child's teacher describes her son as little security guard and she describes the son's friend as mini-hostess . Williams found this as a supporting argument because she said, When my son and his friend Jessie went through exactly the same motions, it was gender assignment that led their teacher to describe them in such unconsciously distinct ways. Another example William added was when a child is born, people always buy blue presents for the boy, and pink presents for the girl. This has a lot to say about how gender is looked at. After all, as said in William's article, we’re all just people, and we’re all equal. The organization of the story and the way she starts the article to support her points. At her introduction, Williams starts off with a short personal anecdote: "When my son was 2 years old, he went to a nursery school where he often played with a cheerful little girl I'll call Jessie." Williams establishes herself as a mother off the start and as a maternal figure, she compels the reader to settle down