Gender And Gender Performance

What is gender and how do you perform gender? Why is it difficult for people to see their gender is a performance? How has your gender performance changed and evolved over time? Gender is a socially constructed frame of mind. Gender is a learned trait that has been taught to us over time from the moment before a baby is born people begin to gender the baby. One way that I perform gender is by the way that I dress. When I get ready for a date usually I will put makeup on, curl my hair, wear a dress and high heels. When a guy gets ready he will usually take shower and throw on a shirt and that is it. The way that women have been taught is that in order to go out and do something fun or nice you need to "dress up," when a man ends up going on …show more content…
He does this to assert his dominance and show his is knowledgeable. I believe that it is difficult for people to see their gender as a performance because it is something that has been engrained in each person since they were young. Every person around us has been someone who has taught you what you were and who you are. This has been happening in almost every aspect of your life from the teachers in kindergarten decorating the desks for boys and girls, to your grandparents buying pink and blue toys, even at the dentist office when they hand out the goodie bags full of gender colored toothbrushes. As I have gotten older I have tried to dress more "girly" because I was made fun of for just dressing comfortably. When I was younger I would wear t-shirts to swim in over my bathing suit and I would wear cargo pants, the girls at school would say I was not girly enough and my mother would tell me I didn't look pretty. As I have grown I have begun to wear more feminine outfits out of the fear that I may be picked on for being too big of a