Argument Essay: Discovering Your Identity

Discovering your identity can be difficult when it depends on what society expects of your gender. When you come out of those expectations it can become problematic because you can’t express yourself freely to do or be what you desire. Female masculinity is one major issue that has overcome to be an issue to be socially accepted especially in male occupational jobs, education, etc. True masculinity is built up from the expectations of men such as doing “manly things” lifting weights, involved in jobs like construction work or being a lazy slob by leaving the housework to the women, etc., when a female is involved in this movement it becomes a threat to society to accept. The expectations of women is for her to be very gentle with herself and be “lady like” in order to get a man’s attraction. The interest of what is …show more content…
Stacey white intentions is not to make an argument about how some identities should be fixable or stabled but interested in those identities who are fixable and stabled are not used as experiment for a “radical pedagogy”. Her masculine body is often endured by ignorance and it challenges the true definition of what identity means. “Gender conformity is pressed onto all girls, not just tomboys, and this is where it becomes hard to uphold the notion that male femininity presents a greater threat to social and familial stability than female masculinity”( Female Masculinity, page 6). Your identity can be pressured based on your gender especially on girls, but is a bigger issue when a male expresses his femininity because his “masculinity” has to endured to commit to his social and familial stability as a man and that is why is a bigger threat than female masculinity. Waite, S.. (2009). Becoming the Loon: Performance Pedagogy and Female Masculinity. Writing on the Edge, 19(2),