Gender Roles: Pink Brain Vs. Blue Brain

Pink brain vs. blue brain. It’s not that simple. You are you. We are people and should not be confined to the simple label’s that are forced in our face by society. You must wear a dress! You must walk with your head held high and your chin up. You must not speak until you are spoken to and your attire must always look new and classy. These are the words that have been said to me most of my life and fit right under the definition of the gender roles that our society has created. Everyone 's brain is pretty much the same. Culture educates us to act and be different. There’s a good deal of cultural studies acted on this, as it is unethical to test on babies. Similar to how gender roles impressed early in life alter the way people think and act as adults. …show more content…
For the men, it is providing for your family and doing all the things that a woman should not such as picking up something heavyweight. While society assumes a woman should bake, cook, clean, watch the children, and do all those other things women did in the 60 's and 70 's. Who made these rules? And why do we follow them? Gender roles are the roles men and women are born into. For instance, that little boys are given G.I. Joe or trucks to play with and little girls are given Barbie. I believe that all of the gender roles are equally important because they all are society’s expectation of what you are supposed to do and look like. The gender roles that I choose to touch base on are the ones you are introduced almost immediately after you are