Gender cultivates more dispute in the modern era than nearly everything else. This constant conflict can be attributed to the ancient practice of organizing culture based on gender. For hundreds of years gender has affected people’s goals, desires, professions, wealth, and roles in culture. However this age old tradition has become, in recent years, degraded and has begun to erode. In the transition from the 20th century to the 21st century the sharp contrasts in gender roles have begun to lose their distinctness. It is being realized that the associated traits for each are not based on biology but are based on sociological constructs formed by humans themselves in order to limit others.
In the last decade society has begun to subtly drift …show more content…
This is most prominent in the film industry, Disney Pixar studios in particular, according to Ken Gillam and Shannon Wooden in their paper “Post-Princess Models of Gender.” They say that, “Pixar consistently promotes a new model of masculinity, one that matures into acceptance of its more traditionally “feminine” aspects” (Gillam & Wooden). Pixar looks to be an example of society attempting to “break the chain” with the traditional selfish male values and replace them with more empathetic “feminine” qualities. Allan G. Johnson in his paper “Why Do We Make So Much of Gender?” discusses a number of the qualities that Pixar seems to be trying to induce in society. In his paper Johnson cites an author who lists a number of heroic “male” qualities for responsibility and responds to the argument by asking why these wonderful human qualities should be associated with manhood rather than adulthood, especially since many of the qualities given are predominantly regarded as female traits (Johnson). Gillam and …show more content…
Author Sara Boboltz in her article “9 Facts That Prove Traditional Definitions of Gender Roles Are Bullsh*t” and Allan Johnson in his article previously mentioned both support this claim. As Boboltz states in her article, “While there are real biological differences between the sexes, gender is generally considered to be a social construction — it can be pretty much whatever we want it to be...”(Boboltz). She also gives various examples of societal trends throughout history that contradict themselves. Johnson actually opens his excerpt stating the fact that before the 1970s the word sex was used to refer to anything being male or female, and gender was used only in grammar in French and Spanish to categorize words in their languages as feminine or masculine until the feminist movement appropriated it to and and altered the meaning to focus on the social aspects of being male or female (Johnson). So gender wasn’t even used for social descriptions of the sexes until the 1970s. Johnson later adds that, “...sex makes a distinction that is certainly relevant to human existence. But it’s one thing to make a clear distinction and quite another to give it cosmic importance, as if who people are as female or male were at the core of their lives...”(Johnson). Here Johnson is saying that if one gives the distinctions between
In the last decade society has begun to subtly drift …show more content…
This is most prominent in the film industry, Disney Pixar studios in particular, according to Ken Gillam and Shannon Wooden in their paper “Post-Princess Models of Gender.” They say that, “Pixar consistently promotes a new model of masculinity, one that matures into acceptance of its more traditionally “feminine” aspects” (Gillam & Wooden). Pixar looks to be an example of society attempting to “break the chain” with the traditional selfish male values and replace them with more empathetic “feminine” qualities. Allan G. Johnson in his paper “Why Do We Make So Much of Gender?” discusses a number of the qualities that Pixar seems to be trying to induce in society. In his paper Johnson cites an author who lists a number of heroic “male” qualities for responsibility and responds to the argument by asking why these wonderful human qualities should be associated with manhood rather than adulthood, especially since many of the qualities given are predominantly regarded as female traits (Johnson). Gillam and …show more content…
Author Sara Boboltz in her article “9 Facts That Prove Traditional Definitions of Gender Roles Are Bullsh*t” and Allan Johnson in his article previously mentioned both support this claim. As Boboltz states in her article, “While there are real biological differences between the sexes, gender is generally considered to be a social construction — it can be pretty much whatever we want it to be...”(Boboltz). She also gives various examples of societal trends throughout history that contradict themselves. Johnson actually opens his excerpt stating the fact that before the 1970s the word sex was used to refer to anything being male or female, and gender was used only in grammar in French and Spanish to categorize words in their languages as feminine or masculine until the feminist movement appropriated it to and and altered the meaning to focus on the social aspects of being male or female (Johnson). So gender wasn’t even used for social descriptions of the sexes until the 1970s. Johnson later adds that, “...sex makes a distinction that is certainly relevant to human existence. But it’s one thing to make a clear distinction and quite another to give it cosmic importance, as if who people are as female or male were at the core of their lives...”(Johnson). Here Johnson is saying that if one gives the distinctions between