As generations pass over time, men and women have had distinct roles in American society based on their biological characteristics and typically common personality traits. Girls and women have always been perceived to be the subordinate sex, while a man’s masculinity places him in a superior position. In United States contemporary society, these gender ideologies limit the extent of “appropriate responsibilities” for each sex. Society has assigned roles to each gender and the adults are responsible for passing those views on to the youth of the next generation.
Over the past decades women vigorously fought for their rights to be equal to men; the creation of feminism allowed women to mold their own paths to gender equality. Those who now …show more content…
The boys and girls are separated on the basis that the playing field wouldn’t be fair to the girls as boys have an advantage based on their biological genetics. The separation of men and women was installed and still done to this day by the adults of contemporary society. In Michael Messner’s, “Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism,” he conducted interviews with both female and male coaches who willingly admitted that they treat each gender differently on the playing field. A male coach will be rougher with the boys as they are supposed to be toughened up and go with a more gentle approach with girls who are more intact with their emotions and are prone to sensitivity. Adults are programming young boys to show emotions of aggression and insensitivity, this “hardening of boys” shows contemporary society only foresees one role for boys that does not include them to be vulnerable or intimate like girls (Messner 163). That perspective of society is known as hard essentialism; the other ideology of contemporary United States society in which boys are trained to be competitive and always have in mind the outcome of …show more content…
society, people have overlooked the fact that young girls are in a mindset where they think there is no longer inequality or sexism. With the discourses of “Successful Girls” and “Girl Power,” every young girl is set to think they are in dominant power to “run the world (Pomerantz 186).” This mindset extends to what is known as neoliberalism, in which girls no longer feel they need the support of government or politics when it comes to education and social services. Neoliberalism is women rejecting government support and becoming independent citizens who are content with their role in the globalizing economy. The reality is that they are living in a world that is filled with inequality but they are being taught not to victimize themselves; they don’t want to admit that they live in a society that still suffers from sexism and where feminism still exists. This is not to say young girls of today’s society don’t know of inequality, they just think that such occurrences only happen in other parts of the world. When they speak of their personal experiences they do not think of them as sexism, American society has hindered their ability to view themselves of being victims of sexism. They are taught and propagated to be strong independent women like all of the celebrities such as Beyoncé or the Spice Girls who endorse woman power (Pomerantz
Over the past decades women vigorously fought for their rights to be equal to men; the creation of feminism allowed women to mold their own paths to gender equality. Those who now …show more content…
The boys and girls are separated on the basis that the playing field wouldn’t be fair to the girls as boys have an advantage based on their biological genetics. The separation of men and women was installed and still done to this day by the adults of contemporary society. In Michael Messner’s, “Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism,” he conducted interviews with both female and male coaches who willingly admitted that they treat each gender differently on the playing field. A male coach will be rougher with the boys as they are supposed to be toughened up and go with a more gentle approach with girls who are more intact with their emotions and are prone to sensitivity. Adults are programming young boys to show emotions of aggression and insensitivity, this “hardening of boys” shows contemporary society only foresees one role for boys that does not include them to be vulnerable or intimate like girls (Messner 163). That perspective of society is known as hard essentialism; the other ideology of contemporary United States society in which boys are trained to be competitive and always have in mind the outcome of …show more content…
society, people have overlooked the fact that young girls are in a mindset where they think there is no longer inequality or sexism. With the discourses of “Successful Girls” and “Girl Power,” every young girl is set to think they are in dominant power to “run the world (Pomerantz 186).” This mindset extends to what is known as neoliberalism, in which girls no longer feel they need the support of government or politics when it comes to education and social services. Neoliberalism is women rejecting government support and becoming independent citizens who are content with their role in the globalizing economy. The reality is that they are living in a world that is filled with inequality but they are being taught not to victimize themselves; they don’t want to admit that they live in a society that still suffers from sexism and where feminism still exists. This is not to say young girls of today’s society don’t know of inequality, they just think that such occurrences only happen in other parts of the world. When they speak of their personal experiences they do not think of them as sexism, American society has hindered their ability to view themselves of being victims of sexism. They are taught and propagated to be strong independent women like all of the celebrities such as Beyoncé or the Spice Girls who endorse woman power (Pomerantz