The word “masculine” and “feminine” are not the best words to describe today’s men and women. The gender roles which are constructed by the society for centuries separates sex to man and woman. The role playing is different based on one’s gender. Men must be masculine and play their role as men. The same idea also apply to women. However, there are some individuals act oppositely against their genders, which creates manly women and womanly men. In Riki Wilchins book, Queer Theory, Gender Theory explains that the theory of language from Jacques Derrida, a famous French philosopher, no longer get fitted in the gender theory. Language is a tool for naming any object, but meanwhile it works as a process of exclusion. For example, “Man” is named based on the biological characteristics all men have, such as the width of pelvic girdle, chromosomes and the genitals. Vice versa, if a person who does not have any of these
The word “masculine” and “feminine” are not the best words to describe today’s men and women. The gender roles which are constructed by the society for centuries separates sex to man and woman. The role playing is different based on one’s gender. Men must be masculine and play their role as men. The same idea also apply to women. However, there are some individuals act oppositely against their genders, which creates manly women and womanly men. In Riki Wilchins book, Queer Theory, Gender Theory explains that the theory of language from Jacques Derrida, a famous French philosopher, no longer get fitted in the gender theory. Language is a tool for naming any object, but meanwhile it works as a process of exclusion. For example, “Man” is named based on the biological characteristics all men have, such as the width of pelvic girdle, chromosomes and the genitals. Vice versa, if a person who does not have any of these