In society we are forced to do a lot of action to fit in, wearing make up, dressing nice, being into sports, and being the “popular” kid are just some of the examples of what society has forced on to us. It may be more than these tacky little acts that we think define us, that society has forced upon us. Could it be our gender? Judith Lorber in her article From Believing is Seeing believes this is so, that society defines people’s gender based on what genital parts they were born with. As Peterocelli writes in his article Getting Huge,Getting Ripped on the struggles of steroids, of why people use and what drives them to use. We use Lorber’s thoughts on the gender role problem to help us understand Peterocelli’s understanding of why people
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One of Lorber 's quotations is saying whatever parts a person is born with society deems them to be that gender. No matter if they don 't want to be that gender, if she has the parts she has to be a woman. With that gender it comes with a whole different lifestyle from what people wear to how people act. The “male” portion comes with a lot more “manly” life, where they have to fix cars and trucks these make one “manly” in the world these are roles males have to do to be “manly” enough. In the women’s side they also have their roles in society where they have to stay at home with the children to raise them and do all the “bitch” work, as I have been told that many times that all that women do. These gender roles also come with two totally different ways people think, men typically have more masculine thoughts about women and cars. Women more typical have thoughts about what they are going to do, how they look, and plan their schedules out.This quote helps us understand Petrocellis quote "There is always another guy with more size and you want to outdo him(758)." Judging by these two quotations Lober 's piece shows …show more content…
A quote of hers that shows us this is "I 'm not saying that physical differences between male and female bodies don 't exist, but that these differences are socially meaningless until social practices transform them into social facts ”(731). It explains just how much of an influence society has on us, not just from looks but to what gender we have to be to be socially acceptable. An example of this make up Society has made its point by saying [women are not pretty without it.] That makes young females want to wear it so the can be beautiful. This is the same point Lorber is trying to make in the article. Lorber 's quote helps us understand Peterocelli 's quote "They believed what they read and thought that a good diet and hard workouts would get them a 'magazine ' look.”(757) by realizing these men and women are doing steroids so they can get that "magazine" look. Once again society strikes again by making people go absolutely crazy just to get a look that society has made for them. Society in both these cases influence what each individual has to do to fit in. The outlook that society has makes these middle class males want to take steroids so they can look like the man on the magazine. Also that man on the magazine has been doing so it makes it socially acceptable to do
One of Lorber 's quotations is saying whatever parts a person is born with society deems them to be that gender. No matter if they don 't want to be that gender, if she has the parts she has to be a woman. With that gender it comes with a whole different lifestyle from what people wear to how people act. The “male” portion comes with a lot more “manly” life, where they have to fix cars and trucks these make one “manly” in the world these are roles males have to do to be “manly” enough. In the women’s side they also have their roles in society where they have to stay at home with the children to raise them and do all the “bitch” work, as I have been told that many times that all that women do. These gender roles also come with two totally different ways people think, men typically have more masculine thoughts about women and cars. Women more typical have thoughts about what they are going to do, how they look, and plan their schedules out.This quote helps us understand Petrocellis quote "There is always another guy with more size and you want to outdo him(758)." Judging by these two quotations Lober 's piece shows …show more content…
A quote of hers that shows us this is "I 'm not saying that physical differences between male and female bodies don 't exist, but that these differences are socially meaningless until social practices transform them into social facts ”(731). It explains just how much of an influence society has on us, not just from looks but to what gender we have to be to be socially acceptable. An example of this make up Society has made its point by saying [women are not pretty without it.] That makes young females want to wear it so the can be beautiful. This is the same point Lorber is trying to make in the article. Lorber 's quote helps us understand Peterocelli 's quote "They believed what they read and thought that a good diet and hard workouts would get them a 'magazine ' look.”(757) by realizing these men and women are doing steroids so they can get that "magazine" look. Once again society strikes again by making people go absolutely crazy just to get a look that society has made for them. Society in both these cases influence what each individual has to do to fit in. The outlook that society has makes these middle class males want to take steroids so they can look like the man on the magazine. Also that man on the magazine has been doing so it makes it socially acceptable to do