American Culture: A Discussion Of Gender Identity

Born on January 11, 1885 in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Alice Paul dedicated her entire life

Popular Culture in the form of media does not always do a fair job of reflecting accurate characteristics of men and women. Society has added to this by creating what is known as gender roles among men and women. They are like a type of social guidelines which men and women follow in order to be accepted by today's society. Although this was designed with the best intentions it can have negative results.

Despite on how the country has developed over the years with technological advances and cultural acceptance, lack of acceptance in gender identity is a problem many Americans face. As defined by Oxford Dictionary, Gender is “The state of being male or female” (2016). Although gender is usually separated into being either a man or a woman, it is important to state that gender is socially constructed and can differ between different societies. Gender is used as a mechanism to differentiate a person’s masculinity or femininity using their biological features (Babatunde & Durowaiye, 2015). Sadly, those who do not conform to their designated gender are not typically accepted into society and are out-casted by many, including the individual’s

This paper examines the social aspects of the sexual identity in America, illustrating how sexual identities have progressed, evolved, and transformed. Social categories have been created as a tool used for social divide and control, inadvertently creating stereotypical facts and discriminatory opinions on sexes; while also helping create social and welcoming communities, whose goals are to diminish ideals such as those. Concluding, this paper will have explained the dichotomous categories of different sexualities and the divides within them. The already established sexual divide leaves no room for those stuck in the in between of today's society, especially one as progressive as America’s. Derived from the examples giving, this paper argues

In my opinion, I think that it is definitely more accepted for women to assume traditionally masculine roles than for men to assumes traditionally feminine roles in the American society. I think that this first began during WWI, when men were sent to war and women took over jobs that men held before they were drafted. This showed that women were able to leave the home and hold their own in a workplace setting- and to this day women are still out in the workforce working alongside men in all types of jobs. Women are even applauded as brave when they take roles as the 'bread winner' for the family and are successful in jobs where they are the boss/CEO/manager. Though sometimes this does backfire on women, because some people will judge them because they aren't at home 'taking care of their family' and judging them for other people raising their children if they are in day-care while the mother is at work. People also call women who are in charge 'b**chy' or 'bossy', because they do not like a woman as their superior.

Throughout history, culture has had a massive impact on the way people live their lives. While both of these books explain the meanings and values of culture, each can be further broken down to explain what these meanings and values have to do with gender, religion, and class. The meanings of an American front porch have to do a lot with gender. Women would often spend time on their porch as an invitation to talk to others, or because it made them feel less empowered.

Gender is the simple difference of reproductive organs and other small specifications that define each sex, there is male and female. In humans, females are the birthers and naturally have the specifications to better raise the young of their species. For humankind, the definition of gender if based on the set specifications for male and female that often determine their role in providing for offspring, female mammals have nipples for milk, and usually wider hips for birthing, while males have slimmer hips for running faster to catch prey. The thing about humans is we are a species that are so self aware that we are understand our gender specifications, which can create resentment for oneself and others. That is why gender roles have been controversial

Most women have taken part in conversations over ideal weight and the perfect body image. Who actually determines these standards? It could easily be argued that “ideal” means something different to everyone. In American culture female models are known to be tall and thin as that is the standard. Most women strive to achieve their perception of ideal.

Ever since I was little, all I have ever dreamt about was becoming a successful doctor and living in a beautiful modern home with my husband and many children. You could say that I’m aspiring for my version of the “American dream.” My parents, who I look up to, portray a glimpse of this future that I hope to achieve. Since I grew up in a Nigerian Muslim household, with conservative parents, my sister and I were raised to uphold certain beliefs regarding gender roles. In a traditional African culture, it’s customary for women to be raised as ‘housewives’ as men are believed to be the ‘breadwinners’ of the household. From a very young age, I was taught to cook, clean and care for my future family. As extra ‘motivation’ my parents would often tell me how shameful it would be to fail as a 'housewife' and unable to marry as a result. Just getting married, does not cut it, women are also expected to birth a child for their husbands (notice the FOR) otherwise, they are looked down upon. My parents always made sure to tell my sister and me, that for us to obtain a happy marriage, we should look for an African Muslim

I believe that gender roles are still relevant in American culture in the 21st century. There is a great statement about gender that was presented in the lecture PowerPoint Sex vs. Gender: “In our society, gender is a master status. In other words, gender impacts almost every single area of our lives, including our relationship with others. If we don’t know what someone’s gender is, then we often don’t know how to react with him or her and we get uncomfortable. As a result we like to know what people sex and gender are.” Today, however, we're less likely to stereotype though there are still narrow- minded people around.

Society places many beliefs on people regarding proper roles for men and women. Gender roles are different for men and women around the world. For most people, these sets of rules surrounding the behaviors that men and women exhibit are so ingrained in their culture that they may go unnoticed unless made aware of it. It is also widely accepted that women face sexism when they go against the norm of what gender roles and society expect of them more often than men. While it is becoming more popular for women to be feminine, housemakers as well as breadwinners for their families, when men go against the social norms of their gender, they are more harshly reprimanded for doing so. Of course, gender roles and social expectations regarding them are more conservative in certain parts of the United States and the rest of the world. While in most urban areas women are regarded as nearly equal in the workforce and media,

I was six year old when I was uprooted from my village in Punjab, India. I was anxious to see the promised land, as my parents had referred to it. My father left for America before I was born so he could obtain a labor job to save up money for when my mother, brother, and I would arrive. I never expected my beliefs and perspectives to change upon arrival. Growing up in a very uniform culture I had a black and white view of the world. In our culture women were responsible for being caretakers. Their job was simply to raise the children, cook, and be domesticated. The men had the role of the breadwinner and they were the ones encouraged to get an education.

The topic of gender has been of great debate for quite some time. Talks of social constructs used to segregate genders based on the concepts such as race, biology, and tradition and have people conform and believe in these ideas of gender. The very idea has shaped what society considers gender and gender roles, “the cultural expectations imposed on men and women to behave in ways deemed appropriate for their gender” (Ciccarelli, White). These beliefs control the perception of oneself and others and often these expectations are branded with stereotypes. Gender roles uphold sexist, misogynistic, and racist viewpoints that withhold individuality and so forth should be dismantled to have true gender equality and acceptance.

Sex is the biological definition of the person, which is through the classification of the genitals. Gender identity is a person’s psychological belief that they are either man or woman no matter the sexual orientation. Gender has created a grand division between men and women. Discriminating women to be weak, unreliable, and irrational. While Men are to be declared as superior. The fight to become equal evolved from the industrial period where woman was no longer needed to also be a provider alongside her partner.

Stanley Kowalski rebels against society by sticking his nose in other people’s business and then uses that information a means to an end to get his sister-in-law out of his life; committing a felony and act of infidelity in the process.