In today’s society there are select individuals that don’t fit into our heteronormative society way of thinking. The way we view individuals is growing in complexity as different individuals start to identify themselves with different gender terminology and expression. By seeing this changed in our society this has made me reevaluate the concept of how your specified sex contributes to the overall appeal of what society norms for gender roles should be conceived of. As I grow up and met people of the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer) community, my understanding of identifying people based just on their appeared gender has allowed me to try to avoid that judgment at first glance.
The terms male and female are not the only two terms we used …show more content…
So I went home and looked it up and “according to Merriam-Webster defines sex… and The University of Minnesota’s Transgender Commission defines... gender identity and expression as the following:
Sex: either if the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures. Gender identity is one’s internal sense of who they are; being a woman or a man, girl or boy, or between or beyond these genders. Gender expression is the external representation of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through feminine or masculine behaviors and signals such as clothing, hair… or body characteristics.” (Teich, 4, …show more content…
And I am unlikely link to my situation through Feminism. Well let’s look at the stances that the feminist try to break about what it means to be a woman. They aim to be treated as equals as men in status of power, money, representation, and opportunity. They fight to express what they feel. Be it right or wrong, they still have unequal representation and as a woman that is not right. For example: “In most heist movies... Women appear generally as either tangential accomplices or just part of the spoils. Sex workers, gold diggers, and garden-variety hot girls are an integral of the good life that stolen riches have to offer” (De Leon, 31). Women are seen as property or even objects. Most people would agree that people shouldn’t been treated as objects, because that shows that they don’t have much freedom “when ... in both industrialized and non industrialized countries, gender inequality means that men are often granted financial control of women’s lives and choices” (De Leon,
The terms male and female are not the only two terms we used …show more content…
So I went home and looked it up and “according to Merriam-Webster defines sex… and The University of Minnesota’s Transgender Commission defines... gender identity and expression as the following:
Sex: either if the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures. Gender identity is one’s internal sense of who they are; being a woman or a man, girl or boy, or between or beyond these genders. Gender expression is the external representation of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through feminine or masculine behaviors and signals such as clothing, hair… or body characteristics.” (Teich, 4, …show more content…
And I am unlikely link to my situation through Feminism. Well let’s look at the stances that the feminist try to break about what it means to be a woman. They aim to be treated as equals as men in status of power, money, representation, and opportunity. They fight to express what they feel. Be it right or wrong, they still have unequal representation and as a woman that is not right. For example: “In most heist movies... Women appear generally as either tangential accomplices or just part of the spoils. Sex workers, gold diggers, and garden-variety hot girls are an integral of the good life that stolen riches have to offer” (De Leon, 31). Women are seen as property or even objects. Most people would agree that people shouldn’t been treated as objects, because that shows that they don’t have much freedom “when ... in both industrialized and non industrialized countries, gender inequality means that men are often granted financial control of women’s lives and choices” (De Leon,