Synthesis:
Communication plays a huge part in the normalization of gender roles. We as citizens, allow gender to become a norm by unconsciously creating and practicing these roles, without realizing the effects it has on individuals and society as a whole. The act of practicing gender through communication is seen with things like "you hit like a girl" or "you 're such a tomboy". By saying things like this you 're implying that one gender is better than the other. You are also stating that they are not conforming to their gender roles through communication. A term that was defined in the reading was "altercasting, highlights how the way we talk and the way we act towards others (alters) puts them in roles (casts them)(pg 62)". We each allow gender …show more content…
For example, women need to know how to cook, whereas men need to know how to fix things. It 's seen as an abstract idea for men to cook and women to fix things. These abstract to exist but they are tolerated after years of rebelling against social norms. The power that stereotypes hold, kind of resembles the power of a puppet master, it tells you what to do and how to do it. You are held up with these strings to portray who you 'really ' are; this person that these social norms and gender stereotype has created.
Reflection:
After reading chapters 3, 4 and 6 of "Communicating Gender Diversity", by DeFrancisco and Palczewski. It opened my eyes towards gender in the environment around me. it gave me sense of how society understands and perceives gender. After reading the three chapters, I felt stupid for being so oblivious and ignorant towards what is happening in my own social space. Growing up in an Indian and Muslim household, I always saw it as boys can do this and girls can do this, but there are certain things girls can 't do and certain things boys cant do. I was always taught to just accept things for what they were as and to
Communication plays a huge part in the normalization of gender roles. We as citizens, allow gender to become a norm by unconsciously creating and practicing these roles, without realizing the effects it has on individuals and society as a whole. The act of practicing gender through communication is seen with things like "you hit like a girl" or "you 're such a tomboy". By saying things like this you 're implying that one gender is better than the other. You are also stating that they are not conforming to their gender roles through communication. A term that was defined in the reading was "altercasting, highlights how the way we talk and the way we act towards others (alters) puts them in roles (casts them)(pg 62)". We each allow gender …show more content…
For example, women need to know how to cook, whereas men need to know how to fix things. It 's seen as an abstract idea for men to cook and women to fix things. These abstract to exist but they are tolerated after years of rebelling against social norms. The power that stereotypes hold, kind of resembles the power of a puppet master, it tells you what to do and how to do it. You are held up with these strings to portray who you 'really ' are; this person that these social norms and gender stereotype has created.
Reflection:
After reading chapters 3, 4 and 6 of "Communicating Gender Diversity", by DeFrancisco and Palczewski. It opened my eyes towards gender in the environment around me. it gave me sense of how society understands and perceives gender. After reading the three chapters, I felt stupid for being so oblivious and ignorant towards what is happening in my own social space. Growing up in an Indian and Muslim household, I always saw it as boys can do this and girls can do this, but there are certain things girls can 't do and certain things boys cant do. I was always taught to just accept things for what they were as and to