Author: Mckenna Middleton

By Mckenna Middleton | Copy EditorWe have been sorted into gender-specific categories since birth, when a child’s genitals somehow directly correspond to a particular colored blanket: pink for girls and blue for boys. Starting the day we come into the world, the genders are separated into to polarized groups, one marked by masculinity and expectations of entitlement, the other filled with femininity and implied frailty. For the rest of our life, we are presented repackaged versions of that same pink/blue distinction.One of these gender distinctions has recently come to the attention of the media in Waco. The name of the…

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