My Gender
On the day of birth, babies are assigned a gender based on their biological characteristics. At a really young age, we were given a gender identity and thought how to follow gender roles to basically fit with society’s expectations. If a baby is born a male, he is expected to act masculine and be tough, independent, rough, logical, dominant etc. If a baby is born a female, she is expected to act feminine and be gentle, dependent, calm, emotional, submissive, etc. We are taught how to act, talk and behave depending on our gender. If people don’t follow these norms, in most cases they are discriminated . Before I was born, the doctors were not able to tell my sex through the ultrasound. My mom said that I wasn’t cooperating and …show more content…
What most girls don’t realize is that what they show on TV is acting and almost everything from magazines are completely Photoshop. This is something I didn’t even have known about until the beginning of high school. In the Allure magazine (pg. 58), there is a picture of a woman on the top corner with color correction all over her face, but her face is already perfect. She doesn’t even have pores, and I’m sure because the photo was Photoshop. The tittle or the small article is “Stand Corrected” in capital letters and Metzger ends her last lines with “ lightly tap or draw one before your make up for skin so perfect, it rivals even the most generous snapchat filter. So they are trying to say you will look so perfect that you wont longer need a snapchat …show more content…
A male is more privileged than a woman that is qualified for the same job. For every 79 cents a woman is earning, a man is making a dollar. Not only is wage gap intersecting with gender, but women of color have it worse according to the article “The simple truth between about the gender pay gap (spring 2016)”, they state that “The gap was largest for Hispanic and Latino women, who were paid only 54 percent of what white men were paid in 2014”(Figure 4). This is really important for me to know about this because I am a female and I am Hispanic. I am not ashamed of what I am, or where I come from. This is just a motivation to keep trying
On the day of birth, babies are assigned a gender based on their biological characteristics. At a really young age, we were given a gender identity and thought how to follow gender roles to basically fit with society’s expectations. If a baby is born a male, he is expected to act masculine and be tough, independent, rough, logical, dominant etc. If a baby is born a female, she is expected to act feminine and be gentle, dependent, calm, emotional, submissive, etc. We are taught how to act, talk and behave depending on our gender. If people don’t follow these norms, in most cases they are discriminated . Before I was born, the doctors were not able to tell my sex through the ultrasound. My mom said that I wasn’t cooperating and …show more content…
What most girls don’t realize is that what they show on TV is acting and almost everything from magazines are completely Photoshop. This is something I didn’t even have known about until the beginning of high school. In the Allure magazine (pg. 58), there is a picture of a woman on the top corner with color correction all over her face, but her face is already perfect. She doesn’t even have pores, and I’m sure because the photo was Photoshop. The tittle or the small article is “Stand Corrected” in capital letters and Metzger ends her last lines with “ lightly tap or draw one before your make up for skin so perfect, it rivals even the most generous snapchat filter. So they are trying to say you will look so perfect that you wont longer need a snapchat …show more content…
A male is more privileged than a woman that is qualified for the same job. For every 79 cents a woman is earning, a man is making a dollar. Not only is wage gap intersecting with gender, but women of color have it worse according to the article “The simple truth between about the gender pay gap (spring 2016)”, they state that “The gap was largest for Hispanic and Latino women, who were paid only 54 percent of what white men were paid in 2014”(Figure 4). This is really important for me to know about this because I am a female and I am Hispanic. I am not ashamed of what I am, or where I come from. This is just a motivation to keep trying