Social Construction Essay

In our society, it is inevitable not to consider the judgment of others towards how we look and how we behave. How men turned into men and how women turned into women was largely influenced by the social construction of sex and gender. Social constructions dictate who we become. As Ruth Hubbard argued in her article, each of us writes our sexual script out of the range of our experiences. None of this script is inborn or biologically given. The diversity of our life situations played myriad roles in the construction of our sexual script, which is limited by our unique upbringings and how we were raised. In our society, heterosexuality is considered to be the accepted form of sexuality. But when a person commits a romantic or sexual relationship with the same sex, they are automatically categorized as homosexuals. Based on history, this categorization was influenced by myriad of factors …show more content…
The fear of being identified or labeled as gays, naturally pushes the person to negatively act against them or distance themselves away from them. By doing so, it reaffirms their heterosexual role in the society. It is like a natural paranoia that is becoming a part of a men’s identity which continuously haunt him wherever they go. I construct myself in simple ways. Though it is always unavoidable to consider the norms and be affected by how others see us, as much as possible, I try not to overdo it just for the sake of entertaining social perception. In my day-to-day life, I keep it plain and simple. I try not to be stressed by the fear of what others say about me. In most of what I do, I simply apply my own guiding principles such as, Does it satisfy me?, Am I not harming others?, Am I not breaking the law?. Bottom line, my own actions shape my own identity and in turn, my own identity shapes my own