Tag Archives: gender

Male, Female or “Intersex”?

I should get used to the fact that con­tem­po­rary soci­ety loves to blur bound­aries. Most recently, I’ve been think­ing about how a basic dis­tinc­tion like male and female is increas­ingly chal­lenged. For instance, with the Olympics around the cor­ner, def­i­n­i­tions of men and women are debated. The NYTimes writes:
Although the ver­i­fi­ca­tion test has changed to […]