Roleplaying Between Gender And Gender In Society

Is it normal that men do dishes for women? Today, most of the husband would like to share housework with their wives, because the social structure has changed. In the past, women should have taken care of all the houseworks in their family, and not allowed to work in the society. As time changed, the boundary in between both genders has somewhat deconstructed but still exist in the society. The difference between gender has caused various problems for men and women who want to play the opposite role of their genders. For example, pedestrians may give odd looks to men who wear a dress on the street, because the men’s appearance has not been constructed like this in the society. Therefore, in order to make men and women are more alike in the society, roleplaying between gender must be deconstructed. Deconstructing the social construction of sexuality can make …show more content…
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