Gender Stereotypes In High School

In the first social setting, the people reactions to me walking around in my boxers was normal. No one seemed to mind when I asked, is it alright that I am in my boxers. In fact, most of the males on the floor walk around in their boxers. In an all male environment, most males break this folkway of walking around in boxers and don’t seem to care when other males do the same. I felt social excepted the whole time while I was conducting this experiment on the all male floor, and did not experience any difficulties carrying out this assignment. In fact, most of males where just wearing their boxers when I conducted this experiment. However, the results in the co-ed floors were slightly different, all of the males in private were comfortable with people wearing their boxers around but when …show more content…
Ninety percent of the females said they didn’t mind at all because at home they had family members that did the something all the time so they were used to it and they found it to remind them of their bothers at home. My reaction was why did the girls not care that I was in my boxers but the guys cared when girls came around. I found out that it was because the guys wanted to take the view of what the girls would think, but that is not actually what they were thinking when they saw me. I experienced very little difficulties carrying out this experiment in the co-ed floor because I knew everybody there and they all knew me. The results of the third social setting were even more mixed, the girls who had brothers at home did not care at all that a male was present in his boxers; however, the females who where only child’s or only had sisters did not accept the idea that it was excitable for a male to be present in his boxers. Their reaction to the situation was a person always be fully clothed when outside his or her dorm