In this episode, Christina Yang has conflict with Preston Burke over whether he should tell the chief of surgery about his hand tremor and whether he can operate on his own without her help. In the beginning of the episode, she shows a typical feminine characteristic of being sensitive by being worried and concerned about Preston and the possibility of him getting into trouble. A couple times during the episode she has heated arguments with Burke. The forceful and assertive traits she is showing are traditional masculine traits. Finally, at the end of the episode, she shows a willingness to take risks, a traditionally masculine trait, by telling the chief of surgery about Preston’s tremor.

In class, we recently learned about sexualization in the media. In this episode, there the characters talked about having sex a couple of times, so it can be said that this episode was not overtly sexual at all.

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