Gender Autobiography Essay

As parents the first thing they wonder is the sex of the child so their able to prepare the baby’s room and decide whether the walls shall be painted in pink or blue. Based off the sex, it is determined on “biological characteristic that distinguished [whether I would be a] female [or] male” (Henslin, 292) influences parents to keep the hair of their child when it’s a girl a long length and a little boys hair usually short, many parents also distinct their children by the color of backpack they chooses to buy their children whether its pink or blue. The sex of an individual changes the features that differentiates weather that person is a male or female. Many of these features hold males and females to different standers based off society’s …show more content…
Parents as well as society, shape children from the first day they are born to grow up and follow the rules of what is proper to wear how to speak and other important things that teach children of their gender. From my personal experience being born the only girl out of two boys in my family has changes the way I was treated by my parents, the toys I was given to play with, the color backpack I was given when I went to school, and many other gender related things that defined me as a girl. My gender changed my parents view on the way they treated me from my …show more content…
As a girl I was told not to play in the dirt or run around because I was wearing a dress as to my brothers wearing dress pants right before church. I was given Barbie dolls and purses as my brothers were given trucks and video games to keep themselves entertained. My gender as well as sex influenced my parents to raise and treat me differently because I was a girl as for my brothers they were not looked upon as much. Because society has put an expectation to how girls and boy, men and women should act, gender roles will always be taught as time continues and years