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family faces during the time when the father, Enrique returns home and sees his son transform into someone the father believes to be the “wrong person”. Enrique is so against his son, Michael, being a trans sexual. It should not matter what Michael identifies as, as long as he is happy Michael is a trans sexual teenager who also goes by the name of Vanessa. Since the teen’s father has been absent for most of his life, Michael never had known what it meant to have his real dad there to talk to.…

heart throb, spent years in the closet passing as a straight man to not to jeopardize the marketability of the band to young women. For transgender individuals, the notion of passing is much more complicated. The term passing is “loaded, tainted with the implication that trans women aren't really women, and trans men aren't really men, but are merely trying to pass off as such and engaging in deception” (Godfried, 2015).…

Through the portrayal of female characters in both Shakespeare 's Hamlet as well as Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, one can ascertain the standing of women and their positions within both their societies and their stories. In both examples mentioned above these woman are mainly used as plot devices or props, which have no individuality or have an apparent sense of normality when they are with men and not as individuals making them appear insignificant without a relationship. However this is not…

Bruce Lee: The Alpha Asian Role Model By Jt Tran Jan 9, 2011 A previous national poll revealed that 35% of ladies as well as 16% of men admitted that Asian movie star Bruce Lee was sexy. This was the majority vote, and only a little percentage of women stated that they didn't locate him attractive. What does this teach us about the Asian community in America nowadays? What it says to me is that some Asian males are basically too hung up on the race issue to genuinely reach out and take what…

A referendum on the anti-discrimination ordinance known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was on the ballot for Houston voters in Harris County, Texas, on November 3, 2015. It lost 61 to 39. Houston is a fairly liberal city with a lesbian mayor who has been elected for the past 3 terms without much controversy. Part of this referendum would allow transgender people to use the bathroom that correlates to their gender; makes sense, right? It is frustrating that HERO was so strongly…

gender bias. Therefore, it is difficult to gather cross dressing statistics blurring the lines between men and women gender roles. In eastern and western culture, a woman wearing a man’s shirt is considered attractive opposed to a man wearing a dress. In western culture, a man dressing as a woman is considered going down a gendered social order (revolvy). Furthermore, in response, transgender advocacy groups continue to fight for changes in gender specific film roles for men. Also, men and…

While sociology has long been aware of gender as a fluid spectrum rather than two distinct categories, this idea is just beginning to make its way to the forefront of mainstream media and discussions. The way gender is perceived today is a product of stereotypes being gendered and reinforced over the course of history. Masculinity and femininity have become the two, and only, district categories of gender. At birth, a person is designated either “male” or “female,” and this label shapes the way…

bodies are indestructible and unbreakable are all ideas that John Updike attacks in his article. He lays out the struggles, and the hardships of being a man in a very sarcastic way. Elinor Burkett in a similar fashion tries to show how women still have a stereotype of being treated as nothing more than sexual pieces. She talks about all the trans people who try to define how women are and should be acting when they haven't been a woman long enough to know determine what a woman is. Both sides…

Gender roles and norms has played a huge role in our society and still does to this day. These norms and roles are introduced to us at an early age in our lives starting from the moment we are born. Now we see these throughout our life growing up whether it’s at school, home, or definitely in the movies. Role is how a person would act if he/she did only what norms attached to a particular position directed. Whereas norms is the elements of a role. Society has put us in these two boxes giving us…