My Gender and Religious Identity
It is the God in Me
Letoya Garland
Lindenwood University
While enrolled in the Social and Cultural Foundations course, I was required to look within myself and who I am regarding my race, gender, class, religion, and age. I have grasped that society places us in the category of what they perceive to be true. Although I should not care what others think and believe about who I am, I work hard to fit in the acceptable social groups. Prior to my enrollment, I believed that my gender, age, and religion are possibly the simplest part of me compared to my race that is more complex. I have accepted that there will be advantages and disadvantages of my age, gender, and religion; but they are …show more content…
Children, both girls and boys, need a male role-model and a male figure in their lives. Having a male dominant role in the home also benefits the woman. Women should not have to deal with the stressors and burdens of the world. The woman is capable of dealing with everything in the case that there is no male in the home. My mother did not have this same philosophy of what a woman should do and should not do. My faith and religion have influenced what I distinguish to be a good wife, mother and …show more content…
I exhibit the attitudes and behaviors that I believe are positive. I try to be a leader and role model, especially teaching in the education field. I work among white women and usually I am the youngest certified teacher in the building. In this course, we discussed ageism. Our lessons revolved more on ageism towards the elderly or the older woman; but ageism affects younger women as well. I am confronted with ageism for being too young while working with teachers with decades of experience. In Audre Lorde’s Age, Race, Sex, and Class(1984), she explains what ageism is, “…ageism is another distortion of relationship which interferes with our vision.” The women that I have had the privilege of calling coworkers have a distorted view of me as a teacher due to my age and youth. I am treated like an inadequate teacher and I have to work twice as hard to prove that I deserve to teach. They cannot see that I have high evaluations and positive relationships with the students because they cannot see pass my
It is the God in Me
Letoya Garland
Lindenwood University
While enrolled in the Social and Cultural Foundations course, I was required to look within myself and who I am regarding my race, gender, class, religion, and age. I have grasped that society places us in the category of what they perceive to be true. Although I should not care what others think and believe about who I am, I work hard to fit in the acceptable social groups. Prior to my enrollment, I believed that my gender, age, and religion are possibly the simplest part of me compared to my race that is more complex. I have accepted that there will be advantages and disadvantages of my age, gender, and religion; but they are …show more content…
Children, both girls and boys, need a male role-model and a male figure in their lives. Having a male dominant role in the home also benefits the woman. Women should not have to deal with the stressors and burdens of the world. The woman is capable of dealing with everything in the case that there is no male in the home. My mother did not have this same philosophy of what a woman should do and should not do. My faith and religion have influenced what I distinguish to be a good wife, mother and …show more content…
I exhibit the attitudes and behaviors that I believe are positive. I try to be a leader and role model, especially teaching in the education field. I work among white women and usually I am the youngest certified teacher in the building. In this course, we discussed ageism. Our lessons revolved more on ageism towards the elderly or the older woman; but ageism affects younger women as well. I am confronted with ageism for being too young while working with teachers with decades of experience. In Audre Lorde’s Age, Race, Sex, and Class(1984), she explains what ageism is, “…ageism is another distortion of relationship which interferes with our vision.” The women that I have had the privilege of calling coworkers have a distorted view of me as a teacher due to my age and youth. I am treated like an inadequate teacher and I have to work twice as hard to prove that I deserve to teach. They cannot see that I have high evaluations and positive relationships with the students because they cannot see pass my