Ch 10 Gender and Sex

 

The chapter Gender and Sexuality touch base on the inequalities ties to them two. At birth we are learn our sex and that is what seperates males to females.I chose to read the article "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities" by Michael A. Messner and he say how masculinities is taught not something you can be born with. This brings me to the social umbrella of our society, there’s the masculine role and the feminine role which is always portrayed as either the masculine man or the feminine female and if anyone doesn’t fit in with the social priority, their considered to be different and weird. When a boy has feminine ways or tendencies, he’s considered gay or just not manly but when a female goes out of her “social priora” she considered to be innovator and a female that his making a name for of female kind, although some women look down on them for leaving their mothering, caring and feminist ways behind.

Throughout my life I’ve seen people take flack from pushing the modern norm. Larger than life stars that wasn’t afraid of being different, from one of the most popular pop stars, Mr. Androgynous himself, prince to one of the most dangerous and powerful women ever to wrestle professionally, china, they have be attacked and bullied because they were different and considered to be gay or distressful. We as a society have gotten so use to the norm that we shame the male nurse or the female firefight. Growing up I never wanted to be that outcast so I got into the sports world, playing basketball and football so I could be considered to be a man while my sisters played jump rope and with played with make-up and dolls that where the stigma came in. I was frowned apond when one day I decided to stay in and play dolls with my sister I remember this day like it was yesterday my father snatch the doll out my hand and slap me upside the head and told me "boys dont play with barbie and said hes not rasing no gay son".