For My Breaching Exercise, I Did Something That Is Expected

Throughout women’s life, they are faced with many stereotypes and situations which dictate how they act and how people see them. A problem with this is that, by thinking that women follow certain stereotypes, society starts to believe that women will only act a certain way, and they don expect them to do masculine things such as being a police officer or

I love how the author broke down the different disciplines that women have. I definitely agree that there are women out here who want to ascribe to be a man’s idea of perfect. While reading this I thought about the Body Project book. I could relate to some of the concepts. I used to think that I had to fit into a certain standard of beauty to be liked. Also, in schools and certain places I felt the pressure to perform my gender to adhere to the guidelines that were given by authority figures. My grandmother never allowed us girls to wear pants to church, it was always skirts and dresses. Once I got older, it was so instilled in my behavior that I almost had a breakdown the day I wore pants to church. I thought that everything was going to happen to me because I disobeyed God and the church people. What I didn’t know was that, the rule was from the pastor. He believed that woman should be seen as lady-like and feminine at all times. Once I started to rebel and live for me, I loved it. I felt comfortable to not submit myself to any man’s expectation of what I should be. A question I have is, are there disciplines that men do to adhere to a woman’s expectation? If not who will create

As a biological female, in more ways than not, I tend to follow the expected roles of a traditional women. Associated with the role of a female are certain personality traits, behaviors, appearances, and occupations. Females are seens as gentle, emotional, nurturing, soft-spoken, cooperative, and dependent. Females are expected to be “pretty” by using makeup, skincare, and haircare products. Longer hair is seen as feminine, as well as, the color pink. In addition, women are expected to pursue careers as teachers, nurses, social workers, and secretaries because these careers required traits and characteristics which are associated with “female.” I view myself as a gentle person, but I am also a strong and relentless soccer and rugby player.

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,

Women everywhere have gender expectations and body alterations. We see it walking down the street and their tattoo, piecing, haircut, or body. We see it every day and everywhere. Women have it hard then man in most place. Women have a lot they must go through and it can be tough being a woman. Having to live up to some unrealistic expectation and body alteration that where placed on them that they didn’t even want. Media, status and control effect women into being submissive, have no voice or say so in any matter. To see the expectation and body alteration that female must make to meet these expectation, can sometimes be outrageous, disturbing and downright unjustice.

Female expectations are less strict compared to male expectations, however many women still believe that they need to harbour the interests and desires of men. In addition, young women are often taught to be nurturing, attend to other people's needs, avoid conflict, and be concerned about their physical appearance all the time. Like male expectations, these characteristics are not necessarily bad. It is the harshness of these expectations that females must behave in this way all the time that makes them difficult.

The idea that women must always present themselves in a certain way has always been a lingering problem. The origin of this idea and what pressures them to follow through with it can be traced back to many different things. Experiences as young girls that drill this certain way of thinking into their mind tends to be a large culprit to this problem. Repeated memories and actions as children often impact they way people think as maturing adults. In this case, women may feel as though they must have a ‘perfect body’ and dress in a similar manner. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some women deem it acceptable to wear things beyond what is appropriate in public. This brings us to the world of child beauty pageants, a subject of much controversy

Despite the fact that what my Mother saids is true, how she voices these statements affects our

Sometimes my mom really gets on my nerves. I guess this is normal for a teenager, and I guess on some level my mother is a decent person. Fundamentally, she’s nice and her intentions are usually good, but knowing all this deep down in no way makes her less annoying. I know it makes me sound really superficial and petty, but the way she dresses is one of my mother’s worst offenses. She wears tennis shoes with almost everything. I’m not at all fashionable myself, and I don’t even pretend to be. Nevertheless, even I can see that my mother is severely fashion impaired.

But besides transmitting that we are behind men, it also transmits that women should be physically perfect to success in the professional and social field.

In Western culture, hegemonic standards exist to police women's physical appearances on a daily basis. Via mainstream images of "ideal" femininity, women are told that they should be in shape, but not look too athletic. Even more, they should be toned, but not too muscular.

Because of the way I acted at least two times of the week I would be placed in the livingroom and get lectured about how I should stop acting the way I was acting and grow up. The lectures consisted of the many stories of my family when they were growing up Mexico telling me I have it easy in life because I usually get everything I wanted at no cost, but I still took everything for granted. It was not until I was about eight years old my uncle had this brilliant idea he recently started his own buisness of a mobile car wash and I was the very first one to be hired. At the this point in life I had no clue what was going on my mom she stopped buying video games the only passion I had at the time and she took that away from me saying it was a luxury not a necessity. She believed if anyone really wanted something in life they will put the effort and try their best and achieve want they want. Well at eight years old my mom believed I was getting old and I shouldn't be getting spoiled anymore the time that was acceptable for my mom to spoil me was when she had a good payday, my birthday, and Christmas. Of course my mom and my family had several beliefs such as school is the only way I'll succeed in life and others stuff but for some reason this one about if I really wanted something in life I

I have always been very outspoken, because most of the time my mom knows what I am thinking before I say anything. I in return know how she is feeling, if I need to keep my distance or if I joke around with her or not. Today my mom has been acting

Sometimes being a woman is hard. Being a woman is hard. It seems like being female comes with an onslaught of unwelcoming burdens physically and emotionally. We are either not wearing enough makeup or the lipstick is too bright. We have too much cellulite or we are too skinny. We are the dumb valley girl or we are intimidatingly witty. We are held to constant critique and comparison to those who are paid to professionally be beautiful, and we are encouraged to try gimmicks such as “30 Beach Bod” and “SkinnyTea” in order to complete the predetermined checklist for beauty. We are over-sexualized and underpaid, but damn do we make good inspiration for art.

     Society would like all women to be feminine. That is to say, society would like all women to render themselves as weak, non-assertive, helpless, male-needing beings. Women are told to act lady-like at all times. This means not arguing, not standing up for themselves and obeying men at all times. The feminine guidelines are seemingly endless and to live a feminine lifestyle is exhausting for most women. It is not accepted for women to spit or belch, whereas for a male these acts are second nature. A fabulous example of manifested pure femininity is the Barbie Doll. Barbie is a homemaker, with a thin body dressed in pink. Barbie is seen as the perfect women and manifests in physical form in every issue of Playboy magazine. Most women are chasing an illusory goal of total femininity, while at the same time searching for complete societal acceptance.