Personal Narrative: Becoming Out Of Women

Lewis and colleagues (2010) also explained that we feel embarrassed as we having potential negative evaluations regarding towards the standards on our actions, thinking, and the way we feel that controls our behavior are the key to embarrassment. Such embarrassing experience signals us on our failures or mistakes and to behave according to our own social context and standards (Lamia, 2011). It also threatens the beliefs we hold about on how other people might have evaluate us as well as how we evaluate ourselves (Lamia, 2011). I was so regret about it and I still feel embarrassed whenever I saw the girls from the toilet. It makes me think that they might had judged me as a pervert or some weirdo who peek in the female toilet which maybe they did not have such

My mother never told me the complications of becoming a woman in this world. Maybe she thought I was strong enough to figure them out on my own. Or quite possibly, she couldn't tell me, because she never really knew how to face the complications herself.

Embarrassment can be one of the hardest pills to swallow; I know this because of firsthand experience. As humans we go through humiliation all the way through life. I do not know a single person who went through life without a moment of discomfiture, if someone has then they must not live a very audacious life. My personal experience was not only utterly embarrassing but also broadcasted on national television. I was competing in the National Little Britches Rodeo Association Finals at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colorado. I have never been one to mull over a certain moment but incidents like this tend to stick with you. What I learned from this experience, I will never forget.

The last memories we had with our families was when these men in black killed an outsider for trying to enter the island. We watched the men in black chase after the people in the streets forcing them to go into their houses and watch a man who I had seen before make a statement on television. The man was tense, stiff, and his stature looked forced.

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with a girl who I worked with a couple times last summer. She is from Tajikistan, which is located in Central Asia. She is identified as Persian and speaks Russian. She left her country and came to the U.S on a work visa five years ago. Her story is very moving and deeply touches my heart.

It was now about an hour later and we had my bags. We were sitting in a taxi and we'd be at his house and Clay wanted to have a party so I can meet his friends. I guess their in a band, I have never heard of them but maybe I'll like

More people would understand if I was in a wheelchair. Everything would be clear if I had a terminal illness or something wrong on the outside. The problem is that my wounds aren't discernible to most people. My scars aren't tangible. Instead of receiving sympathy from those I first let in, I was told to get over it. I was told that I wasn’t depressed because I have a loving family. I was told I wasn’t sad because I’m well off, because I do well in school, because I’m a guy. Despite that, I learned to find strength in my brokenness so I could make myself whole again.

This summer I had the privilege of being accepted to attend an eleven day, women-only, leadership conference taking place in Boston, MA. Women from all around the world gathered to collect knowledge from presentations and lectures hosted in the halls of Harvard and various other prestigious colleges and universities near Boston, eloquently delivered from the likes of Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III and Councilor Ayanna Pressley. At the end of the conference, each person presents their ‘action plan’ explaining how they are going to make a difference.

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 as a teenager you go through many obstacles. Some face more difficult ones than others. One of the many obstacles most teenagers go through is finding your comfort zone, and being able to step out of it at times. Many people including me are skeptical about crossing their line of comfort. These past four years I have had a lot of growth, and most of the experiences have had to do with me finding myself outside my comfort zone.

Women in the world are being oppressed everyday. It is a sad reality. Women all over the world face shame and injustices each day. It can be depressing to look through the statistics of abuse, wage gap, and shame that females go through at least once in their life. I, like many other people in the world, want to do something about the pain that women face every single day. Women's rights are extremely important to me because, one: I am woman, and two: I believe that I, and every single female on this earth, is equal to a male and should not be treated poorly. From this drive I decided to take action. For my AP 3-D Studio Art class, I decided to concentrate on the battleground that a woman’s body has become.

For me there is no one setting in which I am surrounded by people whose beliefs differ from mine. As an intersectional feminist I believe that all women should be able to live and walk through the world unaffected by prejudice, or fear of being attacked the same way that men do. This includes women of color, lesbian and transgender women. I am the gay son of two Mexican born parents so I think that I have faced my share of bias. Consequently, to me, this thing about women is simple. Easy to understand and agree with. However, in a very short amount of time I have come to find that there is no shortage of people all around me that disagree with these simple facts. In my experience, school contains the biggest supply of such people. No big deal, only the place that I stay in for eight hours a day to learn and work in.

My upbringing, up until college had a large impact on how I viewed gender. I believed strongly in the two gender binary, however, I was raised to be respectful and kind to people, so that lead to me being indifferent about people who strayed from the gender binary. However, after being enlightened through USEMs and WGS classes, I realized ‘indifferentness’ is not positive ways to view something different. The feeling of being indifferent can translate to ignoring or not addressing and that translates to oppression. The good person I am does not want to make others feel oppressed or make anyone feel anything but love. Therefore, I have taken it upon myself to find out more about gender, sexuality and other issues. I believe I am at a good place

The punk scene is based around antiestablishment ideas and dismantling systems of oppression. However, as a queer feminine person who’s been enmeshed in the punk community for many years, the scene is not as equitable as it claims to be. I have experienced several forms of gender-based discrimination on various occasions. For a scene that prides itself on inclusivity, heteronormativity, rape culture, and homophobia thrive. This goes to show how heavily the patriarchy is ingrained into our society; even the communities that try to keep it out.

I guess I should point out that my wording was inaccurate to what I was trying to convey. As I said,"I think people should remain the same gender." I was only thinking of genitalia, however, as you said that is only a small portion to consider, I would like to point out, I meant keep what you are born with. I am not saying keep being 100% female or 100% male, I meant do not pay thousands to millions of dollars to change what is given to you. If hormone levels, personality traits, and sexuality plays part in whether someone think they are more female, male, or both then so be it, but changing the physical part of your body is doing too much in my opinion. Remain the same gender, yes, remain the gender a person think he or she is.