Life presents a multitude of choices. These vary from deciding what time to get up in the morning, where to attend university, or even what cake flavor one wants for one's birthday. These choices seem petty and society is not affected. Sometimes when an individual is presented with a choice, he or she does not necessarily need to take it. However, there is a particular choice that society seems to stress about. According to society, there is an obligation to make this specific choice. One's parents (as well as the society one lives in) will make this choice—this decision is a very important to one's identity.
The choice happens to be whether one acts female or male. If a child is born male, he is immediately immersed in roles that pertain to males, whereas females are taught skills that are pertaining to women. Society dictates to identify with the attributes one gender: femininity or masculinity. However, what if an individual decides to break away from these two specific gender identities? This decision spurs a multitude of many other questions.
How is gender role deviation viewed by society; does society accept this choice to be different? Why is femininity and masculinity as stark as black and white? Is it possible for one to blend these two genders and choose this mixture of male and female as one's identity? Despite gender blending in today's fashion and cohabitation via genderblind dormitories, society has not completely learned how to gender blend due to male hegemony towards body image as well as misappropriating emotions that are felt by both sexes.
[...] Society needs to take the advice given by Buri and focus on better expressing emotions instead of trying to ascribe certain emotions to a specific gender. Society and the media have barely uncovered the topic of blending gender roles, and familiarization with blending gender roles can give way to more effective “genderblind” ideas and techniques. References Bordo, S. (1993). The body and the reproduction of femininity. Retrieved from http://www.unc.edu/~kbm/SOCI10Spring2004/BORDO.PDF Buri, J. (2010, May 11). Men: Develop your feminine side. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-bytes/201005/men-develop-your- feminine- side?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Butler, J. (2004). Undoing gender. New York: Routledge. Crane, D. [...]
[...] A more neutral gender Life presents a multitude of choices. These vary from deciding what time to get up in the morning, where to attend university, or even what cake flavor one wants for one's birthday. These choices seem petty and society is not affected. Sometimes when an individual is presented with a choice, he or she does not necessarily need to take it. However, there is a particular choice that society seems to stress about. According to society, there is an obligation to make this specific choice. [...]
[...] They saw their sexuality as power. Men craved that sexuality and these women had total control over that desire. Looking at the male's perspective and studying their hegemony is also imperative. Kathleen Trigiani delves into how sex and gender relate to masculinity's hegemonic behavior. She argues points made by John Gray (an American relationship counselor, author and lecturer). first glance, the theory of hegemonic masculinity makes one wonder if women and men must be "androgynous" to attain gender justice As Connell says, "This integration, however, is not on equal terms. [...]
[...] Is it possible for one to blend these two genders and choose this mixture of male and female as one's identity? Despite gender blending in today's fashion and cohabitation via genderblind dormitories, society has not completely learned how to gender blend due to male hegemony towards body image as well as misappropriating emotions that are felt by both sexes. It is important to view how femininity and masculinity are shaped. Body shape is the most telling (and stereotypical) expression of femininity. [...]
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