Personal Essay on Hate Crimes
Uploaded by lynnbryd16 on Jan 14, 2012
There are many definitions of gender in society today, and there are many reasons for these different definitions. To every person gender may have a different meaning depending on personal experiences or depending on how they choose to view it. I tend to lean towards the more typical definition of gender. I see gender as a way of categorizing people by their actions and or physical appearance. Gender is an issue brought up a lot in today’s society, and has been an issue for many years. Issues such as whether or not women can do the same jobs as well as men, or whether or not women are as smart as men comes up a lot in discussions about gender. In my opinion anyone can do anything they set their minds to whether they be male or female. It is obvious that men and women are different physically, but there is no scientific evidence that says that men are smarter or more superior than women in anyway. This image of women being inferior is slowly disappearing and will hopefully someday be non-existent. I am a very sensitive person and people may attribute that to me being of the female gender, but in reality it doesn’t have to be that way. People are branded as feminine or masculine by their actions, their emotions, and their physical traits. I find myself defining gender along with society. I myself have stated many times how for instance, women body builders have very masculine builds. I have also made many other similar comments conforming to the way society stereotypes femininity and masculinity. I have never sat back and tried to think of what it would be like if women typically were very muscular like a bodybuilder. Would the bodybuilding men be considered “very feminine looking”? Society stereotypes people in this way because it is a way to categorize and define people. By saying a woman is masculine it is insinuating that their physical build is not that of the “typical” female. Society’s typical female is definitely evolving, and has come along way but has a long way to go still. Femininity to me is a way to state that a female is very old fashioned. If someone said to me, “she looks so girlie” my first thought would be the girl in question is wearing some little pink dress with lace or something frilly. I...