Rocket Boys

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…

dysfunctional one? During the novel Jim the Boy by Tony Earley, the reader follows a young boy, Jim, who lives in a less than traditional family with his widowed mother, Cissy, and her three older brothers, Zeno, Coran, and Al. Within the story, Jim’s uncles pressure Cissy to get remarried for the sole purposes of giving Jim a father and her refusal of results in her “depriving Jim of the masculine companionship necessary for the proper forming of young boys”, but Cissy argues that her brothers…

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…

only men acted. Young boys would be cast for female roles because they had not yet reached puberty and their voices were relatively high. This made the portrayal of female characters difficult, female gender ended up relying solely on costume and the ability of the boy to portray a woman, but plays like “Twelfth Night” complicated this because it is play about a young woman who disguises herself as a man, that required the young boy to act as a girl who pretended to be a boy, making the…

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,…

expected to have. Girls are only supposed wear dresses and to play with dolls and fairies while boys are only supposed to play with cars. Boys will always have a room with the color blue and girls will have pink. These kinds of expectations are given to a child depending on its gender. In some households there are certain jobs given to children determined by their gender. Generally, fathers depend on the boys to help with cars and mothers depend on the girls to help them clean in the kitchen.…

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…