Male bonding

life as a man. In Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender, she considers how desires and gender are navigated by norms that are already set (7). This prohibits self-constructed desires to be formed. Laurence was stuck living as a man because she was born as a male, but then decides to make her own path to follow forcing her to let go of her…

14.9% of Californians are Asian, while 25% of New Yorkers are African American, both of which make up 19% of the United States population. Rules of the Game by Amy Tan is about a young chinese girl named Waverly who ends up becoming a national chess champion. Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes is about an African American boy named Roger who tries to steal a woman’s purse, and ends up learning some very important life lessons from her. In Rules of the Game, Waverly’s mother is a recent immigrant…

Ai and Estraven, along with the rest of the people of Gethen in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, struggle at times to understand each other's different genders, sexualities, and cultures. Ai’s sexuality and gender are the same as the average human on Earth, while the people of Gethen are androgynes and only have a gender during their one week mating period, called kemmer, each month. Le Guin is using Ai, Estraven, and the people of Gethen to illustrate how people with varying…

People have a fascination with monkeys and the interest in monkeys is generally due to the similarities they share. What's more interesting is the differences between different categories of monkeys; Old World monkeys and New World monkeys. It’s interesting that many differences arise between Old World monkeys and New World monkeys from generation to generation. Differences such as their anatomy, geography and group sizes are found in each subgroup. The struggle with distinguishing New World…

The time has changed a lot since Valmiki wrote the great epic Ramayana. The roles, responsibilities and values for people’s and personal lives have faced a massive change. The mentality of people completely changed. This change of mentality has also affected a married life, the big and one of the most important aspects in India. It was important in the period of Ramayana. It is important now. So what is the factor that brought the topic of marriage here? Because, if there is something in…

one of the masterpiece of Shakespeare. Twelfth Night is the comedy theatre that depicts the story of twin brother called Sebastian and sister called Viola. Especially, the majority of the show portrayed Viola new experiences that she disguised to a male in order to protect herself. Then, the show was going on with the gender and sexual conflict. The production of “Twelfth Night” has one interesting point, which is, all characters would be played by females. Therefore, I would recommend CU…

Should women be allowed to fight for the country that they live in protecting not only their loved ones but also the many people that depend on the arm forces? This is an out dated question for centuries woman have continued to do their part protecting the country they call home and, with the changing times seeing a female combatant isn’t a uncommon occurrence however, due to stereotypical individuals they feel as though woman are nothing more than a distraction on a battlefield and, are said to…

For centuries society has viewed women as inferior to men, doubting their intuitions and intelligence. Male doctors often did not understand the biology of a women and frequently misdiagnosed women’s illnesses. This vicious cycle gave power to men and demeaned women. “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1899) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman reveals others don’t always know what is best for another person. In the story Jane’s feelings and ideas are dismissed by her husband John who happens to also be a doctor.…

scientists of the time in relation to the misconceptions about female intelligence. “In the most intelligent races, as among the Parisians, there are a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed male brains” (Women’s Brains. Gould). Such were the ideas at the time of noted craniometrists, specifically Paul Broca and his disciples. The particular quote from Gustave Le Bon, a prominent scientist of the time as well as someone considered…

20 Ways I Have Been Gendered 1. Being given toys that involve gender roles (Toy soldiers, playing cops and robbers, star wars action figures) These toys helped me re-enact male identified roles in the military, and behave like male identified characters in movies. I was given toys which had body types anatomically similar to my sex assigned at birth. I used these to practice how I was supposed to behave based on societies prescribed gender characteristics. 2. Being told what I could wear…