Your Gender, Yourself.
What makes you be like the rest? What makes you be different from the rest? Certainly all human beings have many similarities but we always have something unique that identifies us in the middle of the crowd. What defines you as a person? Being yourself is related to a person 's individuality, authenticity, values, talents, abilities and passions that characterize you, your vision and mission in life, all of this is your essence. How do you perform gender in a daily basis? To start off, gender is the very process of creating a dichotomy by effacing similarity and elaborating on differences, and where there are biological differences in the service of constructing gender (...). Basically, doing gender is doing you, is …show more content…
This started back when I was a kid, I actually wanted to become a police officer since I remember, now of course, my mind is open to new things but in the same field, but I was "different;" meaning that as a girl, I used to love playing with trucks, balls instead of like a regular girly girl playing with dolls. But it is just this statements that affects us like: A girl cannot be an astronaut, boys cannot play with dolls, boys cannot be nurse or they are too good to become one; girls do not play videogames, that we have to play with the appropriate toys according to our sex... Or when a same-sex couples go out , the perceptions we have is that "guys should pay the tab," "girl should feel protected with him by her side," "he got to work to maintain us." I think at this point is just a matter of courtesy, Why HE got to open the door for me? Why can 't I invite him to prom? Why can 't I surprise him with flowers? Why can 't I ask him out? Why can 't I make the first move? We are not actually supposed to behave/act in a certain way, it is just how we believe we "should" do it. Even with the way we dress; are girls allowed to wear jeans? Yes, and we do wear them. Are boys allowed to wear skirts? Probably, but they do not do it, because of what society will think, because it does not look "normal". Wearing sneakers instead of high heels, does not make you less "girly", is just a matter of being comfortable with yourself …show more content…
While women sometimes wield considerable influence in domestic settings or in other non public domains this influence is limited by the domain itself (...) Men can play any contact games while women try to avoid any sports that involves contacts, we are meant to be more sensitive and inoffensive; Although we have seen many women involving in soccer, boxing, wrestling and kickboxing, such as Rounda Roussey, who still carry a girly and strong attitude at the same time. Another example are salesmen, usually they sell hardware, technology, computers, men clothing... but there are rarely cases where you see a guy selling lingerie, that is actually a job meant to be for a girl, we can sell anything without been seen weird... Now with respect to house chores, usually women is in charge of all the tasks; cooking, feeding, cleaning, taking care of the kids. And men are out there bringing food to the table, but get in consideration that men still dominate professional cooking. Activities like having a barbecue and the guy is in charge, we see it as normal as them doing all the mainly stuff such as cutting the grass, taking out the garbage, doing house repairs etc... But cases where the guy stays home and take care of the kids and the lady goes out and work and maintain the house, which is nothing wrong with it, is just not
What makes you be like the rest? What makes you be different from the rest? Certainly all human beings have many similarities but we always have something unique that identifies us in the middle of the crowd. What defines you as a person? Being yourself is related to a person 's individuality, authenticity, values, talents, abilities and passions that characterize you, your vision and mission in life, all of this is your essence. How do you perform gender in a daily basis? To start off, gender is the very process of creating a dichotomy by effacing similarity and elaborating on differences, and where there are biological differences in the service of constructing gender (...). Basically, doing gender is doing you, is …show more content…
This started back when I was a kid, I actually wanted to become a police officer since I remember, now of course, my mind is open to new things but in the same field, but I was "different;" meaning that as a girl, I used to love playing with trucks, balls instead of like a regular girly girl playing with dolls. But it is just this statements that affects us like: A girl cannot be an astronaut, boys cannot play with dolls, boys cannot be nurse or they are too good to become one; girls do not play videogames, that we have to play with the appropriate toys according to our sex... Or when a same-sex couples go out , the perceptions we have is that "guys should pay the tab," "girl should feel protected with him by her side," "he got to work to maintain us." I think at this point is just a matter of courtesy, Why HE got to open the door for me? Why can 't I invite him to prom? Why can 't I surprise him with flowers? Why can 't I ask him out? Why can 't I make the first move? We are not actually supposed to behave/act in a certain way, it is just how we believe we "should" do it. Even with the way we dress; are girls allowed to wear jeans? Yes, and we do wear them. Are boys allowed to wear skirts? Probably, but they do not do it, because of what society will think, because it does not look "normal". Wearing sneakers instead of high heels, does not make you less "girly", is just a matter of being comfortable with yourself …show more content…
While women sometimes wield considerable influence in domestic settings or in other non public domains this influence is limited by the domain itself (...) Men can play any contact games while women try to avoid any sports that involves contacts, we are meant to be more sensitive and inoffensive; Although we have seen many women involving in soccer, boxing, wrestling and kickboxing, such as Rounda Roussey, who still carry a girly and strong attitude at the same time. Another example are salesmen, usually they sell hardware, technology, computers, men clothing... but there are rarely cases where you see a guy selling lingerie, that is actually a job meant to be for a girl, we can sell anything without been seen weird... Now with respect to house chores, usually women is in charge of all the tasks; cooking, feeding, cleaning, taking care of the kids. And men are out there bringing food to the table, but get in consideration that men still dominate professional cooking. Activities like having a barbecue and the guy is in charge, we see it as normal as them doing all the mainly stuff such as cutting the grass, taking out the garbage, doing house repairs etc... But cases where the guy stays home and take care of the kids and the lady goes out and work and maintain the house, which is nothing wrong with it, is just not