The idea of gender and how it correlates with our society and even our biology has become a hot button debate between those who believe gender is malleable and those who believe gender is crafted around biological differences between the sexes. Eckert and McConnell argue that while there are certain gender roles that arise from our predetermined sex, most roles are societally crafted and reinforced throughout our lifetime constantly forming the way we are supposed to think of ourselves and others. The authors state that being a boy or girl is not a static fixture, yet it is fluid like a coursing river. Culture is espoused as the driving factor behind these roles, as the example of FInland’s officially sanctioned names for baby’s is put into
