Writing Project #3: roadblocks, bumps in the road, & massive bumper-to-bumper traffic

My "place" for project 3 is my body.



I've had an exceptionally difficult time differentiating between and describing my physical body and the way I think about myself- my [physical] body is a man's body because [the way I think about myself] I am a man, yet the definition of "man" uses the [biologically describing] word "male" in the definition...after looking up this term, I found MALE to be "a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man" (dictionary.com).

The bolded segment of the definition, I believe, deviates from actually defining the [biological] term "male." This segment describes one possible experience of a male person- of a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei. The italicized segment implies "man" as an equivocation to "male." There are a few holes in that logic... I am a man, but I am not male. Just because I do not bear an X and Y chromosome pair in my cell nuclei, however, does not mean I am not a man. The one possible aforementioned experience of male does not define the experience of all men.