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Essay / Analysis of Mary Louise Adams' article “Excerpts from...
It's simply not enough to simply declare your sexuality without constantly trying to prove it to people. The Egan V Canada case tells the story of gender inequality and heteronormativity. The case draws our attention to the fact that the gender we choose to identify by should be accepted by people and by the law. We are born to believe that sexuality and gender are born into us biologically, so being anything but normal is unnatural and wrong. With reference to the article “Girls wear pink and boys wear blue”, the authors recall that “oppression emerges from the concept of gender and the gender process” (Newman & White, 2012). Both authors argue that there is nothing in nature that distinctly determines a single color that should represent a sex. The colors pink and blue have separated the female and male genders for decades as they have become socially and culturally accepted. I argue that there is nothing in our society that proves heterosexuality is normal. If we strip gender down to the core and ignore religion and class, it's easy to see that society has normalized gender to accommodate societal trends.