Question 1:
Hegemonic gender roles are based on heterosexual understanding about the sex’s inabilities to be complex and more than one dimensional. Those who challenge this have corrupted their status in society resulting in hatred from those who follow the social norms. It is women who speak for power, men that don’t fear society’s judgments, and women who follow their own path that purposely go against the restriction of one’s role as a specific gender.
Debates are well known for long hours of two opposites going back and forth trying to prove their point. It is also common to see a male interrupting a female a lot more during a debate between opposite sex. It’s a sign from the male population showing the power they hold over women. Although, …show more content…
Veiling which originated from the Islamic world has beliefs to what the meaning behind it is. Whereas some such as the men believe the covering up to keep the women pure and restricted from what a woman can express, some Muslim women believe otherwise. To them as (Brenner, 674) states, “the Qur’an calls for this covering style of dress only for pray and that its adoption for daily wear is excessive.” Going against the standard idea of having to be covered up all day because men want you to is a way women are freeing themselves. Men can’t control what women wear unless they allow them too. As we conversed about in discussion (11/30), those women are dress modern but still have respect to wear the hijab and full clothing during prayers display freedom of speech. They are challenging this culture where men have had power over how a woman can dress and act by choosing what the meaning of veiling is and acting for their …show more content…
Individuals perception of themselves and what they and others call themselves comes from how they verbally communicate with others. Utilizing language in the form of pronunciation, word choice, speaking styles, and so on has signaled a certain gender identity with it. People are either saying words differently, speaking like a specific gender, and constructing a kind of language to clarify and identify themselves as the person they want to be seen as.
When becoming part of a group, one must alter their identity to fit into the new scene associated with them. Language being the case has shown to be a major impact towards an individual gender identity. Patricia, one of the members of the Surenas, made it crystal clear that she had just been insinuated into the gang from the context of her pronunciation. The word “nothing” is commonly pronounced with no emphasis on any letters. However, Patricia’s lack of attempt to say the word properly, but rather incorporate what she has been taught associated her with a particular group. Inarticulately saying the word “nothing” by switching “her previously fricative []” to “fortitioned and dentalized into a [t]” with the addition of “the following vowel was now high, intense [i]” (Mendoza-Denton: 2008, 208) stated the kind of person she wanted to be seen as. Although Patricia was educated enough to speak proper English, the steps taken to purposely “draw upon the symbolic repertoire
Hegemonic gender roles are based on heterosexual understanding about the sex’s inabilities to be complex and more than one dimensional. Those who challenge this have corrupted their status in society resulting in hatred from those who follow the social norms. It is women who speak for power, men that don’t fear society’s judgments, and women who follow their own path that purposely go against the restriction of one’s role as a specific gender.
Debates are well known for long hours of two opposites going back and forth trying to prove their point. It is also common to see a male interrupting a female a lot more during a debate between opposite sex. It’s a sign from the male population showing the power they hold over women. Although, …show more content…
Veiling which originated from the Islamic world has beliefs to what the meaning behind it is. Whereas some such as the men believe the covering up to keep the women pure and restricted from what a woman can express, some Muslim women believe otherwise. To them as (Brenner, 674) states, “the Qur’an calls for this covering style of dress only for pray and that its adoption for daily wear is excessive.” Going against the standard idea of having to be covered up all day because men want you to is a way women are freeing themselves. Men can’t control what women wear unless they allow them too. As we conversed about in discussion (11/30), those women are dress modern but still have respect to wear the hijab and full clothing during prayers display freedom of speech. They are challenging this culture where men have had power over how a woman can dress and act by choosing what the meaning of veiling is and acting for their …show more content…
Individuals perception of themselves and what they and others call themselves comes from how they verbally communicate with others. Utilizing language in the form of pronunciation, word choice, speaking styles, and so on has signaled a certain gender identity with it. People are either saying words differently, speaking like a specific gender, and constructing a kind of language to clarify and identify themselves as the person they want to be seen as.
When becoming part of a group, one must alter their identity to fit into the new scene associated with them. Language being the case has shown to be a major impact towards an individual gender identity. Patricia, one of the members of the Surenas, made it crystal clear that she had just been insinuated into the gang from the context of her pronunciation. The word “nothing” is commonly pronounced with no emphasis on any letters. However, Patricia’s lack of attempt to say the word properly, but rather incorporate what she has been taught associated her with a particular group. Inarticulately saying the word “nothing” by switching “her previously fricative []” to “fortitioned and dentalized into a [t]” with the addition of “the following vowel was now high, intense [i]” (Mendoza-Denton: 2008, 208) stated the kind of person she wanted to be seen as. Although Patricia was educated enough to speak proper English, the steps taken to purposely “draw upon the symbolic repertoire