Gender Norm In Catcalling Men

"You're such a girl!" is something we hear quite often. But we don't exactly analyze its importance. Every man or women act and behave differently, and that is because of gender roles, "instructions for how to behave and appear as a woman or man (Wade and Ferree 2015; 61). We all "do gender", the ways in which we actively obey and break the gender rules of our society." (Wade and Ferree 2015; 61). We don't always obey these rules and regulation, we're all humans, and we all make mistakes, but it's other peoples reaction what's most interesting about breaking them. Once we break these rules, there is something known as gender policing, "responses to the violations of gender rules aimed at promoting conformity. (Wade and Ferree 2015; 71).

Tannen says that another colleague that read her book, told her that he took “for granted the best way to deal with student 's comments is to challenge them”(Tannen para. 10) He noticed that the females in his class were quiet. He decided to begin class with an open discussion instead, he found more women began to speak up and women liked this better but men liked this less. The reason for this was men liked being challenged and most women thought of it as a public humiliation.

Gender roles have been a problem for a long time. Some people take it personally and others don’t. I began researching gender roles and noticed that gender role has not changed over time. This made me wonder why certain people take gender roles so seriously? It became apparent that men and women have certain roles but they are capable of doing some of the same activities. Also, I will be adding a subcategory about young women searching for their identity. I have experienced gender roles in a negative way and it is not the best feeling. This is what happened, I was put in charge of grabbing the huge suitcases off

Children television programs have been around for decades, designed to entertain and educate the targeted audience. These programs are extremely popular among children, typically last twenty to thirty minutes, are scheduled between the hours of 7:00 a.m. – 10: 00 p.m., and are aired daily on a weekly basis. The commercials that air in-between the breaks of each program are also marketed towards and specifically made for children. Even though the main purpose of children television programs is to entertain, inform, and educate, there are a variety of stereotypes that can be found within some of these children shows. Some of these stereotypes have to do with ethnicity and gender. After carefully watching and analyzing a few of these children

First of all, I come from a Hispanic culture and gender is one of the things that separates each individual from doing certain things. For instance, as a girl in my culture it looks wrong for a girl to use offensive words in public. It’s normal to hear men always being rude and using vulgar words. Girls are taught to be polite and use proper language. Indeed, in my family I always saw my brothers or cousin talk back to their parents and they were just punished. However, for girls it worked different. There was zero tolerance for talking back to an adult. It did not matter if it was your parents or not as long as it was an adult you talked back it was unacceptable. I come from a low socioeconomic status and I don’t think that the usage

My friends, some cousins really put the pressure on and I just always keep in mind that I have to be a, “man among men” (Pg-465). My parents didn’t pressure me too much in about following the guy code, but there were times when I got hurt and they tell me that “It’s All Good” (Pg-462). More importantly, I am a man and I try all I can so that I don’t cross the well-groomed lines of manhood. I try to think more than twice before I do something because I might do something wrong, and I am just too afraid to face the “gender police”. There are times when I feel terrified, for example, intense roller coasters scare me, but I try to “Take It Like a Man” (Pg-462) and come down from the coaster and say, “hey guys wannna go

As my norm violation I chose to alter the way we are supposed to be dressed and look in public as society says. I walked around the marketplace in a backwards low cut shirt, backwards ripped jeans, one blue shoe, one red shoe, and a bright pink wig. First, I went into the yogurt store and everyone was staring at me with blank expressions and kids were laughing. As I walked over to get my favorite mango yogurt an old man jokingly asked if I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I told him no, I just liked to wear my cloths this way and that this was my natural hair. After I left the store and started walking around the water fountain, girls my age were pointing, giving me dirty looks, and some were laughing as they whispered in each other’s ears. Guys my age looked confused when they

Sharp Objects is a novel by Gillian Flynn about a newspaper journalist, Camille Preaker, who has been assigned to return to her hometown to report on a series of brutal murders. In addition to writing a unique and very graphic mystery, Flynn touches upon controversial topics including gender stereotypes. The only real thing I did not enjoy was that Flynn gave away the “mystery” too easily.

When it comes to genders, just by going out on the street in a large city, females are cat-called, verbally abused, and other things. Therefore, they are being defined by the cat-callers, as nothing but an object used to please them.

Alvaro’s suggestion to carry my textbook essentially made me feel insulted due to the fact that I can carry my chemistry textbook without anyone’s help. I believe the women are equals to men. Anything a men can do, women can do so as well. However, that didn’t stop Alvaro from proving me that chivalry still existed and he was a gentleman. After finishing our lunch, he held the door for the three of us. As expected, Britney walked through the door he held, but Lucia and I walked through the other door without his help. There were about two more attempts and every attempt, I denied his help. At this point, I think he believed that I am incapable of doing things for myself. Later, he tried to lead us to our class and instead I said that there was no need and I could take us there and that’s exactly what I did. Granted as I was caught up in getting to my Algebra 2 class early, I didn’t realize until after it happened that Alvaro had opened the door for us again and I had passed through that door. I did sense a feel of shame as I was trying to prove him wrong, but it reality I was helping his

or if my body, body language was signaling my gender, sexuality. I know I didn't deserve these pervs, jerks disturbing verbal and attempted assaults, but I realized the anger against these men for exposing my secret feelings when I was trying so hard to hide.

The concept of masculinity was one I never wanted to uphold, yet was enforced by my community throughout all my years in school. Particularly in early high school, when

After getting cat called in one of my favorite games, Ellie, another girl, and I decided to take action. We stood up to the boy, even through getting called "typical white girls" and that kind of stuff. We reported him so many times I don't even know. Thank you to the girl who stood with us the whole time and to Ellie. I probably would still be getting cat called right now. I don't need anyone to tell me I look pretty or to ask me out on a date. What I want out of a boy or man is for him to see me as an equal, not just some pretty face or some object. I'm not an object. And to all those girls out there who get catcalled, don't just ignore it. Don't just say "he'll go away eventually" or "I'll just move.

The social norm that I chose to violate was initiating conversation and talking to strangers on public transportation. By doing this I deviated from the unspoken rule which says that you should not talk to strangers and that you should not interact with others on public transportation because of the possibility of them harming or assaulting you. From doing this activity, I learned that power dynamics exist in every situation and that by violating a social norm I, as a young woman, put myself in a vulnerable position.

c. Women are portrayed as dainty and vulnerable, and they are valued based on their appearance. Men, on the other hand, are supposed to be strong, and they are valued based on their masculinity. When we catcalled men, we switched gender role by being the aggressors. Men catcalling women is considered normal but when women do it they are aggressive and promiscuous.