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In the article “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough” by Anne Fausto-Sterling, what call my attention the most is the fact that we as humans feel the need to categorize everything. Western society has the idea of the two sexes, female and male; but there are many variations of female and male. Just as the author say depending on “who calls the shots” there can be many categories of sex. Why do we need to categorize it, even when we analyze these categories not everyone fits in them perfectly, which means we will have to create a new category every time or misplace people. I can understand the need to categorize so we can understand and help identify everyone; but by doing so are we as humans just creating more discrimination by separating people like that; making special categories because they don’t “fit” in the ones that are already place.
The article analyses the concept of intersexual body or in a more standard and common way intersex. In here are describe the 3 other different categories of sex. First category is for the true hermaphrodites; this are the ones tha...

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