Assignment11

The statement “I am a writer who happens to love women “is also a genderless statement. I believe that the author is trying to create a genderless society were the actual person character is the only factor that determines the heart of person. In today’s dominate culture sex is the leading factor that determines a person and then you have the homosexuals who are a gender in themselves. If a person is a woman they are automatically locked into a gender role not chosen by them but society if a person is a man there are as well forced into being a person who is brain washed as being a sissy when they cry or a fag when they dress a certain way. It seems like the author is ignoring gender as a statement to eliminate the stereotypes that are associated with gender. Who set these rules? And why do we abide by them? And it takes a person like Jeannette Winterson to make a stand and break the habit of analyzing a situation based on gender. When asked the question; who are you? People usually say their name and usually want they love and like to do. Gender is usually obvious if they are face to face or sex is automatically established or searched for with clues like the tone of their voice if they are just talking on the phone for the first time. I would say that sex is a leading factoring of building a new relationship only because we have been wired that way and it just is. But I understand Winterson response as a writer who loves women. She did not specify as sex however everybody does know her sex. So people still do have a perception of her and her sexual preference also lead people to preconceived notions however I believe that it is a person like her that makes people think in a different perspective and think outside the box and I believe her intelligence and insight of people obsession with gender is what made Written on the body such a success. I believe that her ability to leave the narrator’s sex a mystery was a statement in its on. Whose needs gender in a situation about true love. Gender was not important in the relationship only the feeling that it gave the characters. I believe that this genderless society is what caused confusion only because we as a reader wanted to know (well some of us )and I know it plagued me not to know because like so many people today that’s the first thing that I look for and when I can’t tell it bugs. But I felt knowing the gender would have been a positive thing. I believe if the narrator had a sex it would have created more suspense only because I like drama and I think it would have been funny if in actuality the narrator was a woman because you hear about men finally realizing they are gay after so many years of marriage and then breaking up their home. But in this case I believe that Louise denied her love and choose to stay with her husband.