Gender Classifications And Their Respective Implications

Being a woman was always the largest piece of my identity. I focused my attention the oppression that comes with identifying as a woman. I resisted against the ideals of patriarchy and spent time in college starting a club that promoted and supported women in business fields. However, I never stopped to think about the intersection of my identities and how my other identities

Growing up without a father did not make me feel of any less value than other kids who did have a dad. I missed out on some stuff that other kids get to do with their dads like go

The most abused social problem is absent fathers. When a child’s father dies, there is no quick fix unless the mother gets remarried. Whereas if the father is alive and knows about the child, but disregards to care for or recognize his kid, is what is being abused. A life without a father is barren. Two parents are better than one without a doubt. If someone were to believe that anything positive arrives from fatherless raised children, my thought is, why? How do you? How do you suppose a kid enter the world from an absent fathered family, and conform in a relatively masculine world? How do you come to believe that being raised without a father doesn’t harm a kid’s objective on life? Do you think that kid will acquire an equal amount of love,

Since my early teenage years I have been told that the way I think and reacted to things was like a man; so for the one day I had to live the gender experience of a man, I decided to take the role as far as I can. I did everything I could think of doing: I dressed, acted, talked, ate, fixed thing, be in control of everything and I even though like a man.

Social construction of gender to myself applies to the “normalcy” of girls are feminine while the boys are masculine but throughout my years I have learned to challenge it. Through various institutions starting with my family I have learned that my gender is feminine however through other influences I have not fully become a girl y girl as you would call it. Gender is considered to be on a micro level it is more personal level due to the fact it is your own identity what I according to the lecture on “Identity is Fluid”. “ Identity can be based on my family or childhood experience and is often shaped by race, economic class, sexual orientation, geography and last but not least gender”. How I socialize into my gender roles

Growing up with a father that was never around and a father figure that also left was hard, but it taught me that I don’t need a father to rely on. I have myself and my mom, and as long as I don’t forget who I am I

I paused when someone questions my masculinity. It was a sign that I had absorbed what society views how a man should behave. I never understood why this is so. Throughout my life, I have loved giving my friends hugs and getting close to them and going shopping for as long as I can remember. Surprisingly, I even recall asking my mother and father that I wanted a Barbie for Christmas. At American University, I hope to continue these discussions with AU students and form a group where we support each other to accept ourselves and understand these gender

Gender labeling has existed since antiquity as depicted in history where the males were expected to be dominant, strong, brave, stoic, the primary wage earners for the family. On the other hand, docile, sensitive, caretaker, gentle, source of affection are the words used to describe the females. Until today, gender labels continue to pervade society as majority finds it morally and ethically appropriate to do so. There are many concepts of social psychology pertinent and integrate with each other to bring about this phenomenon. Conformity plays a big role in this as the people of today are greatly influenced by the previous generations. If the previous generations have been labeling the roles of males and females in society for such a long

lastly, the most significant change in the past 50 years is the roles of gender that has made an incredible turn when it comes to evolution. transition has become more common that ever, if you are not satisfy with the sex you were born like, they can change the outside to meet their inside personality. This is a huge and controversial change and eve tough a small percentage in America are transgender, they often suffer discrimination in various aspects of their lives, including employment. Society doesn’t recognize this changes easily, we all have to respect someone else's

There really haven’t been many times in my life where there was a conflict between my personal experience and the gender identity that I was expected to conform to. Although I am a bit of an introvert. There have been less cases of these because with people that I choose to surround myself with I make sure that they know that I don’t care what anyone expects me to conform to. “Individuality makes its appearance by being differentiated from other individualities” (Buber, pg. 162). In response, they question me about why their likes, dislikes, and choices are different from mine, and not from society’s.

Growing up, I never had a father figure to look up to or depend on for many things as I got older. My mom had to be both of my parents. I haven’t seen my dad in almost 13 years. When I was finally at an age where I realized that most nuclear families have two loving parents, I began to question why I didn’t have my father in my life. Nonetheless, I learned how to adapt without my dad. I’m very grateful that my mom was an exceptional parent and did her best to make me feel twice as loved because of the absence of my dad. I don’t necessarily believe that fathers are necessary for a children’s well-being. I have turned out just fine, but there are definitely some adverse effects that come with a missing father-figure. I would say that the biggest downfall would be the feeling

My assumptions about gender have changed dramatically throughout the years and—honestly—in the past few months due to friends who have identified as someone other than a man or woman. When I think about gender, I immediately think that someone, more than likely, identifies as a man or a woman. My conditioning—or my influences—have shaped this in my life; however, there are multitudinous ways to describe someone’s gender or lack thereof, when I actually think

Conforming to the norm of a culture is a norm within itself and almost everybody struggles with it. It is part of the human experience that we ask ourselves, “Who are we?” but what we are blind to is that we are already told who we are from birth. The concept of gender and gendered stereotypes label people who have yet to experience the world. Gendered socialization, which is a process by which a person learns to live by the norms and customs of their specific sex, is where these stereotypes begin in our lives, and follow us to our death. This notion is an invisible authority of which many cultures live by and it controls all forms of communication. This can be proven simply by studying the way in which men communicate, then the way in which women communicate. Although constantly changing, genders have rules, and these rules dictate the nature of living for everyone.

Do class and gender affect how individuals act or behave? Society has evolved throughout the years and with that evolution, the people have separated themselves by factors such as class and gender. This separation started many centuries ago and made a large appearance in the Great Depression and Civil Rights Movement. Along with this division of people, actions and behaviors seem to have been paired with certain classifications of people. In prior eras, women were seen as fragile and not earners due to needing to stay at home and take care of children. On the contrary, men were seen as masculine and earned a decent amount of money from working all day long. Even though genders evolved into how they are now with women working alongside men, the separation is still visible. Women are still fighting to get paid the same amount as men, resulting in a certain behavior based on the gender. This behavior is one where women try to get equal pay through comparable worth instead of just staying quiet like women used to. The factors of class and gender cause a difference in an individual’s actions and behavior in the ways of not socializing with certain types of people, creating stereotypes, and behaving in a way to fit the norms of the specific class or gender.

Having grown up without a father, he was killed in motor vehicle accident six months after getting out of the Army after serving two simultaneous tours of duty in Korea; I did not know how to be a man. My mother and grandmother get the most credit for me being who I am today. My grandmother started me reading the Bible at the age of three, even though she only had a third grade education post slavery and being a sharecropper.