Odd Man Out

curious why the clothes in the photo is light in the sepia picture. She explained to me that he was wearing white dress. White dress? as I profoundly questioned. I found out that all children in my great great grandma’s generations wore white dress whether it’s a boy or a girl when they were a baby. For my opinion, is do strange and odd was that. From then on, I learned babies had been identified with colors when they born. It comes as no surprise that the some gender identity are conflicted…

sweltering day in July 1971 Isabella and Keldon married at Alderwood United Church, there were lots of family, food, and drink. Everyone thought that this was a marriage to last forever! THE MARRIAGE Two years after getting married Isabella found out she was pregnant. She had been trying for some time. What a wonderful moment! Her sisters were also pregnant and the 3 babies were would be born, each 3 months apart. Isabella was excited but she was nauseated for the entire time. There were…

more adversity and tougher times than men do. This however is a personal opinion of course. The reason I wanted to point this out was simply to demonstrate the irony in everything Boccaccio said and did. Looking closer to the actual story that involved the Marquis of Sanluzzo, Gualtieri, and his bride Griselda to prove that woman did in fact stand harder times than man, this was why Boccaccio’s opinion to an extend was justified. In the story, Gualtieri’s vassals force him to choose a woman…

My gender norm violations were to do the casual norms of men, I committed to walking down the street whistling and “catcalling” toward men, mansitting on the bus, open doors for my male coworkers, disregard manners in a restaurant and offer a man a drink. When I enacted my first violation which I mentioned was walking down the street whistling and “catcalling”, I was with my friend and we did this in my city in a very populated area. We began in the evening, my friend also gladly accepted to not…

Where Katz’s chosen article format blurs the impression of masculinity once more into a single hegemonic entity, Consalvo’s work teases the details back out and encourages a more intersectional approach, which benefits all interpreters and media readers, male or otherwise, white or not, neurotypical or otherwise, gives them the benefit of the multiplicative and rich perspectives that lead to an understanding…

Our culture creates societal norms and double standards. Double standards (as they relate to gender) are standards we hold to only men or only women. As social creatures, to achieve acceptance we continually try to meet standard expectations set by our society. Trying to meet the expectations of others may lead us to fear being different or open the door to discrimination from peers. In this way, standards and double standards in society cause discrimination against people who deviate from…

The first location observed was at Westgate in Glendale, Arizona at 3:30 in the afternoon. Many families were in attendance, but I chose to focus on a family of four: mother, father, son and daughter. The female child was around two and a half years old, and her little brother was about 12 months old. Both of the children were dressed in stereotypical gendered clothing. The little girl had on black tights, a leopard print sweat shirt, and boots, while the little boy was in jeans, a navy jacket,…

I had blossomed into something new by freshman year and I loved it. Most of my friends and I all had filled out in areas we did not expect. We now had boobs, hips, and thighs. Quite a deadly combination for a highschool girl to possess. We learned how to use our new attributes to our advantage rather quickly. Being thought of as innocent and fragile worked to…

experience of the female gender in a chauvinistic based culture like ours is animating. So also is the juxtaposition of the sexes in terms of quality contributions to societal building on the one hand and the resilience of the womenfolk, in spite of all odds on the other. The ironic twist in the lopsided arrangement in…

The mother tells us she is a "big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands" (876). We can see a large rough woman, who wears overalls during the day and a flannel nightgown when she goes to bed. Because she compares herself to a man many times, we can picture what she looks like. She and her daughters are black, but she describes Dee as being lighter than her other daughter, Maggie. She seems to be dreaming about how beautiful Dee probably is after all these years. She continues her daydreaming…