Gender Roles Effecting Americas Youth From the moment of birth one’s sex is how people identity who the baby is as a person. ““Women are not born, they are made” same is true for men” (Eckert, 735) throughout our lives our thoughts and actions are the outcomes of creating ourselves into what society believes how our sex should be acting. Both males and female are treated differently by parents and other adults of society, doing their gender work for the child. Buying clothing, and toys to teach the child and show others in society their sex and role that they play. Children then latter on take on their own process of gendering themselves and aiding in the process of others. Gendering is a process that we as humans have created and is not
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“Go into a store in the United States to buy a present for a newborn baby, and you will be immediately be asked “boy or girl?” overalls for girls may be OK but gender liberalism goes only so far( Eckert, 738). This just goes to show that no matter where you go how you are looked at is based upon your gender. Whenever I was shopping for an infant based upon their gender I always shopped for either pink or blue colors. If someone sees perhaps a boy in a pink shirt or even a dress people are automatically going to assume something is wrong with the child. We have created this process of gendering in society and if someone goes against the standard society has set others will judge and criticized. The child doesn’t have the biological instincts of understanding whether they are a boy or girl, it is something that was created and instilled from birth. Clothing is something in our daily lives that will continue for the rest of our lives. Based on clothing at child wears being a boy or a girl they will be treated differently. “Indeed, we do not know how to interact with another human being (or often member of other species), or how to judge them and talk to them, unless we can attribute a gender to them” (Eckert, 739). In my personal experience, I have seen women that are dressed in men’s attire either at a restaurant or shopping center and because that are not in proper gender attire people are confused and don’t understand how they should treat the person. No matter how a person dresses or their gender everyone should be treated equally. We as humans shouldn’t see someone for their gender but see them as a
“Go into a store in the United States to buy a present for a newborn baby, and you will be immediately be asked “boy or girl?” overalls for girls may be OK but gender liberalism goes only so far( Eckert, 738). This just goes to show that no matter where you go how you are looked at is based upon your gender. Whenever I was shopping for an infant based upon their gender I always shopped for either pink or blue colors. If someone sees perhaps a boy in a pink shirt or even a dress people are automatically going to assume something is wrong with the child. We have created this process of gendering in society and if someone goes against the standard society has set others will judge and criticized. The child doesn’t have the biological instincts of understanding whether they are a boy or girl, it is something that was created and instilled from birth. Clothing is something in our daily lives that will continue for the rest of our lives. Based on clothing at child wears being a boy or a girl they will be treated differently. “Indeed, we do not know how to interact with another human being (or often member of other species), or how to judge them and talk to them, unless we can attribute a gender to them” (Eckert, 739). In my personal experience, I have seen women that are dressed in men’s attire either at a restaurant or shopping center and because that are not in proper gender attire people are confused and don’t understand how they should treat the person. No matter how a person dresses or their gender everyone should be treated equally. We as humans shouldn’t see someone for their gender but see them as a