Gender And Gender Characteristics

Today’s males and females feel like they have to fulfill the features of their gender, but the one they may be the most conscience about is their body features. Men focus on getting stronger to look tougher and compensate for their lack of being a gentleman towards women “ Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles”( Alex Karras). This quote talks on something men do not understand which is they should not only exercise their physical muscles, but also their internal muscles which are their politeness and kindness towards anyone. Men and society fail to see that internal features are more outstanding than physical features. Meanwhile women also focus heavily

The determination of gender identity is much deeper than whether a person is born a male or a female. The exact identifier that separates gender identity is currently unknown but researchers believe that genetics, hormones, reproductive organs, biological, and environmental factors all play a role in distinguishing a person’s gender identity. A person’s physical gender and their sense of gender are formed at two different times in two different parts of the body. A person’s gender is whether they are born male or female, but the way they identify themselves may be the opposite, which is not uncommon and has occurred since the beginning of time. In culture males are known to be the stronger, more aggressive sex, while females are the

The encouragement to focus on physical appearance has been an all-time buzz in our society, and with it comes the possible significant increase in negative body image. While some of us think that ideal body image are only women's issues, men—turn out—have body image issues too! Just like women, men are bombarded with “perfection” blueprint as well. Media, advertisements, and professional sports create a compelling and toxic mix of messages, assaulting men with ideal body images of young, fit and muscular professional athletes and male models with bulging muscles and six-pack abs. Enough to make an average Joe feels like an average old and fat Joe. This dilemma is what men go through based on Ted Spiker's article, How Men Really Feel About Their Body.

In present day all around the world, society has certain expectations for the actions and behaviors of males and females. There are many factors in our everyday lives that contribute to the gender norms that society has set. This essay will discuss how situations in life can play a part in how people treat other people based on their gender. It is believed that males are the leaders of our world, but in present day woman can do as much as men can do. From The Journal of Marriage and Family, Hu states, “Differentiated gender roles in adulthood are rooted in one’s gender role socialization. In order to understand the persistence of gender inequalities in the domestic sphere, we need to examine the gendered patterns of children’s housework time.”(2015, P.1). Gender roles are society’s expectations of the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females that they must be taught. These roles define how females and males are viewed in society, their household, and workplace. In The Journal of Sports behavior by Hardin, he states, “Although gender role differences from biological and “Natural” exists in popular consciousness, research has long demonstrated that instead, many are long time socially constructed… Individuals understand their gender because they are given names and treated in particular ways, such as dress in pink for girls and blue for boys, that reflect social construction of gender. Bandura's social cognitive theory is key in understanding the factors in socialization”(2009, P.3). Bandura's theory of of social cognition is that behavior, environmental events, and cognitive factors are the main keys that shape attitudes and actions of an individual. Although, gender roles play a very big part in our society, specific genders are treated differently while dealing with peer influence, media influence, as well as employment.

The gender describes how our understandings and perception of differences between masculinity (what society deems appropriate behaviour a “man” and femininity (what society deems appropriate behaviour for a “woman”) are influenced.

Everyone in the world thinks to be athletic and good looking you need to have a muscular body. This is not the case as people come in all different shapes and sizes. This is the same thing as the breast which Natalie Angier talks about in her essay The Story of the Breast. The breast like muscles come in all different shapes and sizes. Nobody is made the same and women shouldn’t be judged about their breast size, while men shouldn’t be judged on how muscular they are. The other pieces that will be mentioned are The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire by Richard Leppert and Images of Gender by John Berger. These pieces will help me make the case that we should judge humans if they don’t have perfect breasts or a muscular body. People should be praised for being who they are

This unrealistic ideal of masculinity that is presented to society through modern advertisements and television have several negative effect on how men perceive their own body images. For a long time, people have been talking about how women were affected by those ideals, and how they were having unhealthy habits to try to look like models and actresses, but is very rare to find people discussing how men are affected by those ideals. But surprisingly men are very worried about their body shape and appearance, and are very affected by this unrealistic ideals, sometimes more affected than women.

In this assignment I will be discussing the expect of nature vs nurture debate and will be defining what gender and sex is and applying that to nature vs nurture debate.

In what ways is the male gender superior to the female gender in relation to “The Homeric Hymn to Demeter”? It tells the story of Persephone, goddess of spring, taken against her will by Hades. Her grieving mother, Demeter, goes through great lengths to be reunited with her beloved daughter. The hymn portrays a great divide in authority between both genders. The male gods use their authority without consequence. They assert their power on others without taking into account who it affects. Zeus and Hades interpret authority as power’s equal; however, true authority requires one to have a sense of community and be able to take responsibility for their actions. The females shown in the hymn provide a model for community that the males learn from. Through Demeter’s defiance, woman are able to free themselves from the imbalance of authority.

I actually really enjoyed reading this eye-opening chapter. I almost found it refreshing because society usually ignores or lack to analyze the social construction and the stereotypes surrounding the male’s physique. In many different ways, I would argue that, in many cases, men have it just as bad as or possibly even worse than women because there is very little to no variety in the male’s appearance in the media. Lorber and Moore support this claim by stating, “The standards for beauty are so narrow that one good-looking man in a magazine very much resembles others,” (89). Women have the pleasure of seeing different sizes and body shape on TV and they are usually represented in a positive light. However, men do not have this pleasure. The media advertises the same type of

Gender performance is what we do to show how we identify ourselves when it comes to gender. As it says in the second slide of the Chapter three PowerPoint, gender isn’t what we do, it’s who we are, and what we become. If you are a guy, you normally dress like a man. Like the example from class you don’t usually see a man wearing a skirt when he attends class or goes to work. This is changes culturally because not all cultures see gender the same way that our culture does. Our culture usually only identifies or accepts male or female. It is only relatively recently that our culture is starting to accept the people who are not cisgender. And even now it depends on the person as to whether they will personally accept them or not. This is also related to doing gender because we do what society says we do depending on what gender we are assigned at birth (Ch. 3 Slide 2).

By appreciating how sex differences emerge - rather than assuming them to be fixed biological facts - we can help all children reach their fullest potential. “In the past decade, people have heard a lot about the innate differences between males and females. People have come to accept that ‘ Boys can’t focus in a classroom and girls are obsessed with relationships.’ That’s just the way that they were built.”(Eliot 1). Boys and girls, while having much in common, are also very different in their thoughts and mental aspects. Psychological gender differences could provide explanations for gender stereotypes, help to understand communicative and expressive skills,

The way people look at gender has been changing over the past few years. Gender has always been a social topic on what boys should do and what girls should do. Although, with the new generation, I have seen people break the mold of gender stereotypes. Over the years, I have seen many classmates and schools changing the status quo of gender. My generation has a different opinion on gender stereotypes than my grandparents and even my parents. Gender stereotypes are changing with each generation, whether it be through sports or the occupations people have.

What does it take to be a man or a woman? Our sense organs alone do not determine whether we are men or women. Our gender includes a multifaceted combination of beliefs, behaviors, and characteristics. How do we act, behave, and talk like a man or a woman? Each one of us has a sex, a gender, and a gender identity that are all aspects of our sexuality. These aspects describe who we are, in different personalities and attributes but related. Society’s categories for what is masculine and feminine may not capture how we truly feel, how we behave, or how we define ourselves.

The term ‘gender’ was coined by John Money in 1955: “Gender is used to signify all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself/herself as having the status of a boy or man, girl or woman, respectively” (Coleman and Money, 1991, 13). In