Gender Differences In My Life

This class made me realize how society has shaped me. I am a young Latina mother, born from immigrant parents,bi-cultural, bilingual, college student, wife, able body with many more privileges and disadvantages. The class made me have great conversations with my family, friends and even people I just meet. Gender is something people can not take out of the picture and is socially constructed and it impacts a lot of how people see you and think of you. This semester I was able to understand all the things and factors that make me the way I am. The stereotypes that people have about gender, sexuality, race, social status and many other factors that people are judged by. This class made me understand that my life is better then someone else in this world and that I should be proud of the privileges I have. It also made me think about the decisions I have made in the last years of my life.

My senior year in high school I got pregnant. Before telling my parents I was very scare and wanted to have an abortion. In “Abortion, is a motherhood issue” by judith arcana gives an example of how having an abortion is …show more content…
My mother has always watched novelas (soup operas) where the women get in love get marry and are happy. My father loves to see drug cartel novelas. My parents have always told my siblings and I the roles of people in the world. I had to always take care of my siblings and do their chores. I cooked and did laundry. My brothers are the most disrespectful boys I know and that is because my brothers see my mom like she does not have authority. My father never allowed my older brother to touch a duty plates or had to take care of my siblings. Man in the media are never independent or showed doing “female” roles except if they have a gay personage. In the letter I wrote that they should have a luck at how they are treating my siblings and how they wish they could treat