Sexes basically refer to either males or females. A person’s sex or the sexes are distinguished from the kind of gametes they produce. The male sex produces sperms while the females produce egg or the ova. During sexual reproduction, such gametes combine to form offspring possessing the traits of both the male and female parent. The male gametes are small and motile and can be transmitted over long distances while the female gametes are large and non-motile. Physically, males and females are quite different in their body structures. Females are supposed to be curvy, lissom and gentle. On the other hand, males are embodiments of strength and are supposed to be hard and gritty. In the words of Arianna Huffington, “It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretence that there are no differences between the sexes.”
