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A leather clad man rides by on a horse, sending dust shooting up in his trail. He naturally skips along atop the horse, but his hat remains motionless. On his hip is a holstered pistol, ready to be drawn at a moment’s notice. As he rides off in to the sunset, a tumbleweed grazes by, and western music begins to play. This is the modern depiction of a cowboy. What one does not realize however is where all of this came from. The cowboy did not always exist, he had to be born and carefully crafted.…

Masculinity in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” Being a man is a theme that Ernest Hemingway often writes about in his stories. Masculinity plays the biggest role in the short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” because Wilson and Francis Macomber have the goal to be a “bigger” man. Margot is Macomber’s wife, and she is impressed by Wilson’s manliness rather than her husband’s. Throughout the story, Margot makes it blatantly obvious as well that she does not respect her…

through songs and music videos artists and institutions look to glamorize women, construct narratives around their beauty to making their music more appealable to mass audiences. The industry looks to play with the audience’s emotions, especially male audiences, by creating…

This paper carries on Judith Plaskow’s “Authority, Resistance, and Transformation: Jewish reflections on Good Sex” and Patti Jung’s “Sanctifying Women’s Pleasure” conversation on Good Sex. Judith Plaskow critiques Judaism and other religious traditions conception of good sex, which undergirds patriarchal mindset and values that tend to be oppressive and do injustices to women. Therefore, she argues that authority about good sex ought not be established by tradition alone, nor by traditional…

Girls wear pink. Boys wear blue. Girls stay in the house and do housework; boys like to go outdoors and work. Girls are told to wait their entire lives for the boy they will marry and their happily ever after. Stereotypes surround each and every person. Gender is often one of these stereotypes. Can a girl not enjoy the outdoors? Can a boy not enjoy the color pink? Can a girl not like outfits that contain the color blue? The way that individuals are raised can affect the way they act and…

As a child grows and develops they rely on the parents less and begin to pick up on social norms for each gender. They will begin to mold themselves into what is expected for either a male or female in light of what they experience and learn from society. Eckert and McConnell-Ginet state that “over the years, the child will learn to take over its part of the process, doing its own gender work and learning to support the gender work of others.” Although parents are the first source of gender…

Labels Are Based On Gender The negative stereotypes based on gender continue to be an issue in today’s world. Stereotyping people based on whether they are male or female affects an individual’s perception of themselves. Many people do not realize the damage one can do when they stereotype a person. If a person is not comfortable with their biological gender, stereotyping can cause feelings of shame. People should not feel ashamed of their gender simply because of what others have to say.…

new things at young ages. At older ages, teenagers should receive same rights because they are juggling school, house chores, and playing sports that they love very much. Secondly, Title IX made sure the money for sports was equally split between males and females (“Cover Kids And A Few More Things To Think About (Cover Story)”). This is a great start of making women have more rights. However, women still do not receive full equality. The money is still being split unevenly and resulting in many…

within our society because many in our society think of a persons sex as either male or female and that an act of sex should only be between the opposite sexes. I feel that men often try to keep women suppressed and dependent upon the man since they are usually the ones in power. I believe that men do this so that they can stay in power because if they allowed a woman to hold a higher place in society then the male would no longer be the dominant one in power. However, throughout the years…

imitating this mime of gender that already exists. ‘Drag’ is the act in which males dress up as females and perform that gender in the most approximate way, the characteristics associated by females. It is exaggerated due to the excessive make-up and feminine characteristics displayed by ‘drags’. It is considered an act as you can take it on and take it off, whereas you can’t change your biological gender of male or female. Males and females are constantly miming certain gender codes, with…