As a student who has always been most interested in STEM courses, I've never felt a close connection to the humanities. In all honesty, I'm taking What Is A Man? to fulfill the humanities requirement for graduation. However, the name of this course caught my eye the very first time I saw it on my ONE—UF account. My expectations for this class were that we would discuss problems with the social construct of masculinity. And although my expectations were met, there are attributes of this class that I wasn't expecting, such as: using music, literature, and other works of art to discuss how class, race, and sexuality all affect the idea of masculinity.
I've thought much about society's idea of gendered identity in the past. In my eyes, people have the right to identify as whatever they want, and thankfully, today, we are in a more open position to do so. I believe that gender and sexuality are social constructs, but as a woman in science, I also think of biological sex assigned at birth. As a woman of Hispanic background, I've had to deal with misogyny because...
