Question 1:
Hegemonic gender roles are based on heterosexual understanding about the sex’s inabilities to be complex and step out of the roles that are assigned to them. Those who challenge this have corrupted their status in society resulting in hatred from those who follow the social norms. It is women who speak for equality in power, men that don’t fear society’s judgments, and women who follow their own path that purposely go out of the one dimensional beliefs that were forced upon them.
Debates are well known for long hours of two opposites going back and forth trying to prove their point. It is also common to see a male interrupting a female a lot more during a debate between opposite sex. It’s a sign from the male population showing …show more content…
Some traits that fall under the umbrella of masculinity are not showing emotions, being physically muscular, having power in more ways than one, not caring about how they look, and so on. However, studies have presented that more men are becoming less masculine and more ‘metrosexual’. Defined by (Harrison: 2008, 55), “Men of all sexualities are taking a greater interest in their appearance.” In other words, males are spending an enormous amount of time and money to keep up on how well they look. This kind of growth in the male community is challenging the social norm society had set to distinguish male and female. Studies have shown that “American men between the ages of 21 and 48, concluded that ‘30 –35% of young men in America have metrosexual tendencies: tell-tale signs include buying skin-care cream and fragrances” (Harrison: 2008, 56). The constant grooming and interest in fashion by men has triggered the appropriate roles, rights, and responsibilities of men in society. Men are portraying a sense of self-consciousness towards their physical appearance; something correlated with the actions that are dubbed “feminine”, therefore, conflict with social norms of what it means to be a man and choosing to care less about what is expected of …show more content…
Therefore, those wanting to be referred as a lesbian must use a mixture of stereotypes that constructs the lesbian language in relation to the gender identity. With careful analysis, four stylistic tropes came together to formulate the lesbian language, “Stereotyped women’s language, stereotyped nonstandard varieties, often associated with working class, urban males, stereotyped gay male language, and Stereotyped lesbian language” (Queen: 1997, 239). In other words, cursing, wide yet also narrow pitch range, use of hedges are ways they speak and words they chose to use. The variation of stereotypes display both female and male characteristics. Including bits and pieces of different genders, the lesbian community has built this identity that is very different to associate with the traditional genders society has conformed to. Being the predominantly portrayal of the lesbian language, this strategy is used by those who identify themselves as lesbians in order for society to accept them for who they
Hegemonic gender roles are based on heterosexual understanding about the sex’s inabilities to be complex and step out of the roles that are assigned to them. Those who challenge this have corrupted their status in society resulting in hatred from those who follow the social norms. It is women who speak for equality in power, men that don’t fear society’s judgments, and women who follow their own path that purposely go out of the one dimensional beliefs that were forced upon them.
Debates are well known for long hours of two opposites going back and forth trying to prove their point. It is also common to see a male interrupting a female a lot more during a debate between opposite sex. It’s a sign from the male population showing …show more content…
Some traits that fall under the umbrella of masculinity are not showing emotions, being physically muscular, having power in more ways than one, not caring about how they look, and so on. However, studies have presented that more men are becoming less masculine and more ‘metrosexual’. Defined by (Harrison: 2008, 55), “Men of all sexualities are taking a greater interest in their appearance.” In other words, males are spending an enormous amount of time and money to keep up on how well they look. This kind of growth in the male community is challenging the social norm society had set to distinguish male and female. Studies have shown that “American men between the ages of 21 and 48, concluded that ‘30 –35% of young men in America have metrosexual tendencies: tell-tale signs include buying skin-care cream and fragrances” (Harrison: 2008, 56). The constant grooming and interest in fashion by men has triggered the appropriate roles, rights, and responsibilities of men in society. Men are portraying a sense of self-consciousness towards their physical appearance; something correlated with the actions that are dubbed “feminine”, therefore, conflict with social norms of what it means to be a man and choosing to care less about what is expected of …show more content…
Therefore, those wanting to be referred as a lesbian must use a mixture of stereotypes that constructs the lesbian language in relation to the gender identity. With careful analysis, four stylistic tropes came together to formulate the lesbian language, “Stereotyped women’s language, stereotyped nonstandard varieties, often associated with working class, urban males, stereotyped gay male language, and Stereotyped lesbian language” (Queen: 1997, 239). In other words, cursing, wide yet also narrow pitch range, use of hedges are ways they speak and words they chose to use. The variation of stereotypes display both female and male characteristics. Including bits and pieces of different genders, the lesbian community has built this identity that is very different to associate with the traditional genders society has conformed to. Being the predominantly portrayal of the lesbian language, this strategy is used by those who identify themselves as lesbians in order for society to accept them for who they