American Culture Values The Drama

Our gender has an effect on every aspect of our lives, varying from how we view ourselves and other people to how we interact in social and civic life. It also impacts the way we set our goals in opportunity areas such as education, work, and recreation. Gender socialization starts at birth then manifests through family, education, peer groups, and mass media. Gender norms are automatically placed on us, where women should learn how to be nurturing, sensitive, emotional, passive, and always hold a man’s position higher than hers. On the other hand men should be overly confident, aggressive, dominant, and view women beneath them. This paper uses various readings to show how these gender norms are supported and challenged in today’s society.

Women and men are nestled into predetermined cultural molds when it comes to gender in American society. Women play the roles of mothers, housekeepers, and servants to their husbands and children, and men act as providers, protectors, and heads of the household. These gender roles stem from the many culture myths that exist pertaining to America, including those of the model family, education, liberty, and of gender. The majority of these myths are misconceptions, but linger because we, as Americans, do not analyze or question them. The misconception of gender suggests that biological truths no longer dictate our gender roles as men and women; they derive from cultural myths. We, as a nation, need

In Reyes’s Los Angeles Times article, “Men Are Stuck In Gender Roles, Data Suggest” posted on December 26, 2013, she discusses that there are gender roles in today’s society that has been set and learned at a young age, that men do men things and women do women things but there’s a small percentage where it’s flipped upside-down. The context of this article can be misogyny or sexist, and focuses more towards the male audience with a smaller portion of women. Reyes’s exigence comes from her own research as the “census data and surveys show that men remain rare in stereotypically feminine positions”(Reyes Par. 3). Due to her excellent use of appeals, Reyes’s article is highly recommended for the PopMatters Persuasiveness Prize. Reyes supports her claim with ethos with her usage of good credible sources; logos, using inductive logic and by providing good statistics; and pathos, like the bandwagon appeal with an attempt to sway people away from the norm, and by providing stories from everyday folk on how they’ve encountered these stereotypes regarding gender roles.

The American lifestyle from the early days of settlement until the 1900s can be summed up simply in one quote; “America holds that every association must have a head in order to accomplish its object and that the natural conjugation is a man” ( “How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes) Up until the 1900s, the typical American man was depicted as conquering the workplace, politics and dominating at home, while women were forced to tend to their homely duties, Woman  had no rights and nor did any other human who was not a white male. While reading and interpreting Alexis de Toquevilles “How Americans Understand the Quality of Sexes 1840s” and Elizabeth Caddy Santon The Declaration of Sentiments we are able to see the similarities

Sexism in the United States has affected the country greatly. The idea that the world is a “man’s world” has been apparent since the writing of the Declaration of Independence. In The Declaration of Independence, it states that all people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”(Declaration of Independence). By this, the framers were hopeful that all humans would get these “unalienable Rights”, yet because of sexism women do not get these rights. In The Grapes of Wrath, women are shown to be less than men. It is stated that “Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole” (Steinbeck 4). By this statement, the reader is told that as long as the men were okay,

Throughout the world, women are treated differently than men due to solely to their gender. This is heightened in certain countries due to the culture believes that have shaped every aspect of the culture. This is clearly displayed through the machismo culture which is in most latin American countries. This culture has dictated the way which the societies have been built which means it affects every aspect of The machismo culture negatively affects society for both men and women. Women are forced to be submissive while men are pushed to assert their musicality to dangerous levels. This can be seen through the domestic abuse epidemic, homosexual repression, and other aspects of the Latino community; this type of culture needs to change to progress

Thank you for sharing your discussion amongst your fellow classmates. “One of the more common identifiers that were a big topic in the past is that women are inferior, and shouldn’t hold any political, social or economic power.” The Native Americans have a term “Two-Spirit” that is usually used for those who consider themselves as transgender or similar to it. Even a women who seems to be a lot more masculine, gets married with a feminine women to balance out the plant gatherer and the hunter. That also is included to feminine males, would marry a masculine male and dress up as a women. The reason why I mentioned this, is due to the way you used your words in your discussion, as if all cultures the women is inferior. Granted, yes for the most

When thinking of gender roles in society, stereotypes generally come to mind. Throughout history these stereotypes have only proven to be true. Major historical events have had a huge impact on the way men and women are seen and treated. In this way, women have always been secondary to males and seen as the fragile counterparts whose job is to take care of the household and most importantly, be loyal to her husband no matter the circumstance. Gender roles throughout history have greatly influenced society. The slow progress of woman’s rights throughout humanities led to an explosion of woman’s rights throughout the 20th century and that trend will only continue on into the rest of the 21st century.

In her book “Can’t We Talk” Deborah Tannen compares the manner of which males and females react to each other in diverse circumstances. Early in the reading she states that men are raised in a world in which a conversation is a competition that they should never loose, and women are taught to listen, confirm and offer support to other people. She supports this with when she stated that she saw it in her own husband when they worked in two different cities and how he “approached the world in a way to achieve and maintain status” (Tannen). Also, stated in the article, Tannen was talking about how ways to avoid fighting with their significant others, people tend to give in to

In the article “The End of Men,” Hanna Rosin offers several examples of women overpowering men. The inequality between men and women has become a critical issue in today’s society. According to Rosin, women are slowly surging ahead in the workforce and family life while men are left behind struggling to meet expectations. Rosin argues that this role reversal is taking place because women are simply better suited for postindustrial society.

Kinzel and Solnit both aimed their articles at the male population to point out an issue that is usually swept under the rug. A man being the intended audience strongly affects the argument because they are the ones that the authors have a problem with. They want to get their point across but need to do it in a way that does not anger the reader. Kinzel shows her great understanding of the issue by talking about how women are capable of this type of attitude. She even describes her behavior in situations like this “I’ve always called it “lecture mode,” and I even have this habit where I take a deep, semi-dramatic breath before it shifts on, and I begin, on the exhale, with, “Well--” I always begin with “Well--” and I always conclude with, “Does that make sense?” (Kinzel). By acknowledging this male readers are more receptive to her message and more likely to be open minded.

Long gone are the days when women were expected to stay at home and play “housewife”, cooking, cleaning, and making sure the kids got off to school, while their husbands worked a 9 to 5 in order to make ends meet. Today, women are no longer viewed as weak and incapable. A “superwoman” is the new woman. Men as the “breadwinners” have been replaced by “Ms. Independent.” The traditional male role has diminished as women fulfill bigger roles in society and exceed the expectations of their male counterparts in the household, workforce, and within social settings. We have abandoned old rules; no longer is it a “man’s world,” we now live in a shared world.

Other common gender roles that affect our society in a possible bad way. Men are taught to be strong and powerful while women are taught to be dainty and subordinate (purely depending on culture). These roles make men feel pressured to take on these roles and if not they will be seen as weak and doing something wrong. I feel that women are hurt by these gender roles more than men. These gender roles keep women down. They restrict where they can go in society and they keep a higher standard of what is expected.

Throughout history, countless acts of gender inequality can be identified; the causes of these discriminating accounts can be traced back to different causes. The general morality of the inequity relies on a belief that men are superior to women; because of this idea, women have spent generations suffering under their counterparts. Also, a common expectation is that men tend to be more assertive and absolute because of their biological hormones or instinctive intellect. Another huge origin is sexual discrimination; even in the world today, many women are viewed by men as just sex objects rather than a real human being with

Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?