Boy Meets World

might like the same things as boys or girls. When I was growing up I would always play with my sisters and their friends. I think my favorite part playing with them was the dolls. Being Ken was fun because back then being “white” was the norm. When I was growing up I had long hair, to the point where my only grandfather confused me for a girl. My gender identity was male. “Gender identity is a sense of oneself as male or female.” (Wade 355) I was classified as a boy even though on the outside I…

my dads legs begging and pleading for him not to go to work, or playing football with him in the yard and believing that by some amazing feat similar to Paul Bunyon, an undersized six-year-old boy could tackle his fully grown and in shape father at thirty six years of age. Being as young naïve as young boys are there was no better feeling than when you were able to tackle your old man to the ground, even if I didn’t know at the time that he was merely playing along to the fantasy I enjoyed to…

and a woman? Is it the dichotomy of the genital region? Is it the broadness of a man’s shoulders compared to that of a woman’s? Or, is it the intellect, the skill, or the even the strength? What exactly draws the line between him and her? “Alright boys and girls turn to page 370 and do all the even questions.” Those were the words of my algebra teacher right before an incident occurred that from this day, I cannot seem to degenerate from my head. “These questions look way too hard.” I said as I…

stressed about college. Many of the boys that played sports had received scholarships to go play in college, but very few girls were getting good scholarships to places they wanted to go. One of the girls had been a varsity basketball player all four years of high school and she always started on the team, but she was not getting the scholarships she deserved. She was always working hard and practicing on and off season to improve to the best of her ability. A boy that received a scholarship to…

these “tweens” is not what one would consider coming out of an 8 to 12 year olds mouth. Young girls and boys should not feel the need to see themselves as “flirtatious” and “sexy”. Tween girls are being shown by the glitzy and sexualized media-driven marketplace, that being flirtatious and sexy is what they’re supposed to act and look like. They are being taught that these two words will make boys find them more eye appealing, which instead will only win them…

An era that impacted and shaped the world for the decades to come, the Elizabethan Era was one characterized by British success, yet for women it was not as great as the world perceived it. Women in this era were considered inferior to men in all ways, they were expected to be married young, and to be completely subservient to their husbands, and those who were not, were typically burned at the stake as witches. Being a woman in those times was not exactly a pleasant experience, only the Noble…

Boy Based Commercials Rather than domesticity, commercials that feature boys contain violent images. For example, in the commercial for “Power Rangers Super Megaforce Double Battle Figures” there are images of ‘blasters’ and ‘swords’, with the Power Rangers fighting ‘evil’ (Bandai 2014). The voice in the commercial is male, and the intended audience for Power Ranger is clearly young boys. The voice says things like “fire your blaster and swing your sword,” as well as “you’re armed and ready!”…

there has been changes in the way that gender is viewed and treated, for the most part the way gender is viewed has stagnated. In the nineteenth century there were clear cut boundaries between what was expected of girls versus what is expected of boys. Girls were taught from a young age to care for a house and children. In the Mother’s Book by Lydia Maria Child women are counseled to give their daughters “A knowledge of domestic duties… Every one ought to know how to sew, and knit, and mend,…

Different Gender, Both Humans Since the time we are born or even since the time our parents know they having a boy or a girl, we are socialized into rules and what does it means to be a boy or a girl. The set of beliefs, norms and practices depends in the place we live. Our family, friends and the media around us it what shape our culture and through them we are socialized into society. What is the first thing that comes in mind what a person thinks about a little girl? The color pink, dresses,…

Group 1 of all females checked their phones about once every two minutes per person. Alternatively, each girl checked their phones about two and three quarters times in five minutes. This group had four girls. This group had a tendency of prolonged phone use. About half of the phone uses were longer than thirty seconds at a time. Also this group often included their phone uses to the other members of the group; for example, a girl would show the others a picture she found on Instagram or tell…