Unit 3Gender

Differences

Little show 1

It is a sunny day. Bob, Sue and their three over 10-year-old daughters are driving to a beach to have a relaxing trip on weekend. Sue sits beside Bob and turns back constantly talking to her daughters. But for Bob, that is so noisy.

He can’t tolerate and shouts out: “Shut up, please.” Then silence. After a moment, Sue says:“ Why?” “Because I’m driving.” Bob says angrily.” “Driving……?”Women begin to whisper.

They don’t know what’s the connection between their conversation and his driving. Meanwhile, Bob doesn’t know how they can open their mouth at the same time but don’t talk about the same topic. So, what’s the problem here?

The answer is: men and women are different. It doesn’t mean who is better or worse, they are just not the same. Scientists, anthropologists and social biologists have known that several decades ago.

However, it is thought in general society that men and women have the exactly same skills and potential. Scientists are trying to prove that men and women are absolutely different. Only by understanding the differences between men and women, we can truly learn from each other to create our common world.

Little show 2

Jackie and Cat are preparing to attend a cocktail party. Cat tries on a new skirt, tries to dress herself up beautifully. She takes out two pairs of shoes, one is blue, the other is golden, and then she asks Jackie a question which all of men are afraid to hear:

"Honey, which pair matches this skirt?" "ah, uh, which pair do you like, Baby?" "Tell me, Jack, which pair is better, blue or golden?" “The golden one." "What’s the problem with the blue one? You don’t like this pair, I paid much for it but you hate it, don’t you? " "If you don’t want to hear my answer, then don’t ask me, Cat!"

Jackie thinks he helped her to solve her problem. But she is so ungrateful. She just complained loudly. In fact ,she has already decided which shoes to wear, and do not want to hear others’ suggestions. She just wants to get recognized that her choice is good.

The Differences Between Males & Females

Leah McSweeney （李•麦克斯薇妮） founded the “Married to the Mob” in 2004. “Married to the Mob” is designed specially for female-street style clothing, and within a few years became popular in the industry!

In 2002, when McSweeney and her friends were wandering in NY, five policemen suddenly raided( 突袭 ) her friend. Seeing this ,fiery McSweeney picked up a bottle to hit the police! This behavior irritated one of the officers, he not only beat her but forced her head against a wall, the collision broke McSweeney’s teeth.

Afterwards, McSweeney charged them and received compensation( 赔偿金 ), which used for capital fund. “Boys have many cool brands to wear, what about girls?” McSweeney said. So,Married to the Mob is specially designed for women, its unique design allows girls to have streetwear and can also be very cool!

This is just consistent with the concept of "gender equality”, so when marketing to other countries, it is greatly supported and loved by females.

The differences between

males and females ：

Many differences between males and females have been talked about in our textbook.

So

But nowadays, there are so many other “things” between sexes…

Unit 3-2

Males? Females?

Poy 　　 　 Full name Treechada Marnyaporn　 Nickname Poy　 Height 171cm 　 Weight 48kg 　 Measurements 33–24–36 　 Profession actress, singer, model Rewards 　　MissTiffany 2004 Miss International Queen2004

Transgender

1 、 Believe themselves are opposite sex inside.2 、 Declare themselves are opposite sex, even their bodies are not.3、 Change their gender through sex change operation.4 、 Hope others accept them according to their inner gender.

“Some people might say that I’m a transgender, or a transsexual, Personally, I prefer I was born with a wrong body. That means I was born physically male outside, but everything else about me was female.”

Name IsisNationality America Age 22

American next top model

The first

transgender competitor

Name Jin Xing （金星）Profession Dancer

Jin Xing and her father

“Son, do you have something to say?”“Dad ， sorry……I want to have the sex change operation.” “Why? For dance?” “No ， dad ， for myself ， for my life. Do you know, I was born mentally a girl……” “You know what, I often asked myself ‘why my son behave like a girl? Is there anything wrong?’ now, I understand.” “Dad ， lose a son ， then you can’t have a grandson. Won’t you regret?”

“Of course I will. To an ordinary person, this is a problem. “ 传宗接代，祖宗遗训，不孝有三 ,无后为大”… But ， the more important thing is to be responsible for your life. You are right. You respect your life and there is no wrong to complete yourself. After all, people can only live for one time. You can dance excellently. Just be honest to your life. I’ll be proud of you no matter you are a son or a daughter.”

Jin Xing and England Prime minister, Mr. Blair (1998, in Beijing)

Jin Xing and her husband (German)

Jin Xing and her sons.

Jin Xing’s attitude to gender ：

“Men and women are the same. Why can women cry loudly but men can not? Why do women require privileges?

Do not compromise to your gender. I dance with neutral（中性） attitude, and I live with neutral attitude.”

Brokeback Mountain

Homosexual means a person who is sexually attracted to people of the same sex.

Homosexual

Rainbow Flag symbolize homosexual.

As a member of the hit singing group “Westlife” （西城男孩） , Mark Feehily(25 years old) announced his homosexual identity, and introduce his boyfriend Kevin McDaid to the public.

Mark Feehily and his boyfriend.

In our country…

张国荣

蔡康永

关菊英

关锦鹏

黄耀明

林

夕

林一峰

白先勇

白先勇 is the represent of Taiwanese modern literature, and he’s also the most realistic writer. He received the 7th national literature and art prize in 2003. His novels were the sophistication( 顶峰 )of novel writing during 60-70s in Taiwan.

Introduction

He’s my lover, but the affection between us isn’t simply romance or brotherly affection. It should be said that we are sworn to live or die together. This attachment includes friend, lover, and companion with tacit understanding( 默契） . He’s a significant person in my life as well as my mentally support. His death is the biggest repentance that I can’t redeem （挽回） .

I think humans are so strange, why can’t they tolerate other’s differences? Why must everyone be the same? 　　

Heterosexuals （异性恋） want to find someone different from themselves. Homosexuals, want to find someone who are the same, they want to find themselves from others. This is the basic difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals.　　 There’re no laws or societies can totally eliminate the homosexual part of the human nature.

白先勇’ s attitude to homosexual: