It is important to
consider your audience when writing because that will frame what information is
relevant to the reader and what may be superfluous. I used to work for a transportation
company. If I were to write using
abbreviations and other jargon related to big rig trucks, most people would not
understand the meanings. I remember when
I first started that job; I felt like I was reading another language. I think Mr. Rogers was a person that was
particularly skillful and attentive to preparing for and speaking to his
audience. He chose words and explained
things in a way that a young child could understand, yet he did not talk down
to them. He was really pretty amazing in
the way he could talk to children in a normal respectful way, yet explain
concepts that were sometimes very deep.
The more research I have done on Mr. Rogers, the more I have come to
appreciate his wisdom. He once received
an award and was called up to speak as he received it. The audience was full of other actors. He spoke to them frankly and directly about
their responsibility to be positive role models for children. Mr. Rogers got the entire audience to take a
moment of silence to honor someone in their own lives that made a difference to
them. Mr. Fred Rogers, from the
children’s TV show, had completely captivated and had the full respect of the
audience full of movie stars.
In “Aligning Bodies,” Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore bring to light the burdens endured by people in our society that don’t necessarily fit into preconceived notions of sex and gender. On a daily basis there are issues they must consider: when filling out forms that ask for their sex, when going to the restroom and when showing legal documents that may not match the gender they identify with. Transgender people may or may not have surgery on their chest and/or genitalia and/or face or other surgery and may choose to use hormone therapy. Some people are born with ambiguous genitalia or with genitals or chromosomes of both sexes. Yet others may identify as a gender different than their birth sex and choose to not alter their body physically. There is a wide spectrum of people in our world that don’t neatly fit into the “F” and “M” boxes. Society and individuals need to ...
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