Essay On Femininity

Almost all cultures in the world are set up within a binary system. These cultures force people to conform to either adherently masculine characteristics to show they are male or adherently feminine characteristics to show that they are in fact female. From the time a person is born they are taught ways in which they should act in order to conform to their culture’s ideas on their role based on their gender. Anyone who does not conform to these characteristics is chastised and marked as being a freak for not fitting into societal norms. There are people who have spent their whole lives studying the way people act in accordance to their gender and rather or not it is necessary and born within them or unnecessary and a taught action.
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I don’s think there will ever be a piece of paper that will be able to tell people what gender they are. I think a person is whatever gender they truly identify with and it doesn’t matter what any outside source says. I also don’t think that categorizing masculinity and femininity is even necessary. I think that people should just strive within themselves or raised their children to be good and moral people. I don’t think that anyone really needs to feel that their personality must fit into a specific category so they fell validity in their gender. You are what you are and something as trivial as you liking athletics doesn’t change your gender and shouldn’t change anyone else’s perception of your gender. I think, I myself, am a perfect example of someone who doesn’t fit their personality norms of a female but there is no doubt in my mind that I am a female. I think Sandra Bem had the right idea with her theory of trying to emphasize the need for a more balanced society, but I think here creating, even more, labels and categories is bad. I think in a perfect society people would just strive to be good or moral and nothing else would really