How Does the "Lens of Gender Polarization" Lead One to View

question 14

Multiple Choice

How does the "lens of gender polarization" lead one to view the world?

• A) It leads one to see humans as the center of the world, rather than, for instance, animals or the environment.
• B) It makes the world appear to be organized into opposites according to gender: male or female, masculine or feminine.
• C) It makes everything male appear to be the neutral norm, the universally human standard.
• D) It leads one to view gender as an unvarying and fixed biological or psychological trait.

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