One thing I will definitely take with me from this class is a shift in perspective about sex and gender. From reading Sexing the Body and the discussions we have had in class about our cultural sex binary and intersexuality, I've gained a drastically different idea of what sex is and how "natural" it really is. As with many other topics we talked about throughout the semester, we found how a multitude of cultural factors influence and construct the "reality" we see as our concept of sex. From the language we use to the way we assign value to different kinds of bodies, our supposedly biologically rooted classification of people based on their genitals turns out to be thoroughly filtered through our own perceptions and constructions. As evidenced by our investigation into intersexuality with Sexing the Body, there is a huge amount of variation in anatomy, leading into the debate over whether it's "truer" that there are five sexes than two, etc etc... The point is, the things we had assumed about sex were not as clear-cut and simple as they had seemed, and by picking apart the gray areas more and more we found a very complex hybrid, well ingrained into our ways of thinking and living. Its interconnectedness makes it a difficult mindset to change.