In order to understand why gender and sexuality are dichotomized, you have to be understand what they both are. Gender is defined by society and it is based on what it means to be a male or female. Genders have assigned roles that they are meant to follow based on their genitalia they are born with. Sexuality is based on people who are physically attracted to when it in regards to forming physical relationships. Sexuality is based on either being gay or straight with little room for acceptance of any other type of sexuality.
With gender, there is only two options of being a male or female and who you are is defined by what gender you are. It is a fact that men and women are both biologically different from each other, men with the XY chromosome and women with the XX chromosomes. There is no way to change who you biologically are because according to Dr. Barry Starr at …show more content…
This was during the time of industrialization where one income was enough to support a family of four. The first record of a stay-at-home father was on the U.S. Census Bureau was reported in 2003 (R4). We are now in a day and age where the idea of a stay-at-home father should be more accepted than it currently is. This idea of a mother doing all the work with the children has shamed the men into spending time with their kids and raising than. An example of this would me Mike Paranzino. He is a 39 year old father of two children and considers himself to be a “full-time father” and while his wife goes to work, he dedicates his time to his children. At first he did not like the idea of being a full time father and for the first fourteen months or so, he would come up with excuses as to why he was not at work like telling people he did some consulting. He said that it was a “macho thing” (R5). With Mike making this statement alone almost proves that we are taught how to see gender
With gender, there is only two options of being a male or female and who you are is defined by what gender you are. It is a fact that men and women are both biologically different from each other, men with the XY chromosome and women with the XX chromosomes. There is no way to change who you biologically are because according to Dr. Barry Starr at …show more content…
This was during the time of industrialization where one income was enough to support a family of four. The first record of a stay-at-home father was on the U.S. Census Bureau was reported in 2003 (R4). We are now in a day and age where the idea of a stay-at-home father should be more accepted than it currently is. This idea of a mother doing all the work with the children has shamed the men into spending time with their kids and raising than. An example of this would me Mike Paranzino. He is a 39 year old father of two children and considers himself to be a “full-time father” and while his wife goes to work, he dedicates his time to his children. At first he did not like the idea of being a full time father and for the first fourteen months or so, he would come up with excuses as to why he was not at work like telling people he did some consulting. He said that it was a “macho thing” (R5). With Mike making this statement alone almost proves that we are taught how to see gender