The author, Kate Borenstein, knows that the subject may seem foreign to others but they do a good job of introducing the subject in a truly engaging and unapologetically way. I myself have not really questioned my gender but I know many people who are close to me have, and many choose to not identify at all. But I think the overall central argument Borenstein is attempting to address is that transformation of a person is constant. There is no phase and there is not guideline to the correct way we choose to identify ourselves. But as a society, we need to not question that either. The way she supports this and very eloquently, is through the comparison of the transformation of the butterfly through their cocoon. She presents us with a scenario where we deem ourselves the “Humanitarian that [we] are,” we gently open the cocoon to free a struggling butterfly, but because the …show more content…
Citron, argues that there has been an exclusion of women in the musical professions, which has inevitably had a correlation on how we continue to limit women representing the canon. She touches on subjects such as the patriarchal objection of music, stating how the French composer Cecile Chaminade’s father discouraged her pursuit of development of her musical talents. She also includes evidence of the sexism that had occurred throughout history of music patrons who disregarded music if they knew a woman had composed it and thus, forcing women to conceal their femininity through gender neutral names just to have their work listened to. Constant critique created a stigma of inferiority towards woman music if they showed or if they didn’t show femininity. She closes her discussion about the importance of representation of women in the music field by acknowledging the consequences that can result from thinking that if work is not existing in modern day, then it must not be important. Inclusion of women works in music can result in better representation, validity, and