The Story of X by Lois Gould
The Story of X by Lois Gould
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Audience
A narrative like this can only appeal to those who put gender considerations before
treating everyone as equals. To alter the collective consciousness and bring about responsible
adult behavior, these audiences must absorb the experiment and begin to rethink things. In the X-
story experiment, participants were asked to imagine a kid of either sex and record their
impressions.
Purpose.
The author wrote this short fiction intending to experiment with his craft and share a
message with the general public. He intended to argue that assigning a child a predetermined
gender is harmful yet insisted that it be done nevertheless. Everyone is curious to know the
gender of a newborn upon hearing the news of a birth. Many things, from the baby's wardrobe to
the toys they will play with, enter the minds of the child's parents and other family members. To
Content
To protect their kid from prejudice based on assumptions about their gender, the parents
in "The Secret Life of X" opt to keep the child's gender a secret. It's an entirely scientific and
experimental tale to alter people's worldviews. The author's tone in this piece is intellectual. The
x baby was part of a social identification experiment designed to demonstrate and teach about a
person's name's importance. To demonstrate that there is nothing like this and to illustrate that it
can change if kids are not trained to play with certain specific toys, the author set out to disprove
the stereotype that girls play with girlie toys and guys play with masculinity and sports.
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Lois Gould's Story of the X feels like a fairy tale. A hypothetical account of an
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unconventional ways of thinking. In certain nations, questions of gender equality are highly
contentious. To effect social change, this narrative prompts us to rethink our assumptions and