Reflection Paper On Gender

world a better place. However, gender roles and assumptions still have significant influences over individuals, and particularly youth in school. Dictating their belief in themselves, until assumptions and stereotypes become self-fulfilling prophesies (Elliot 2009). To me, gender has always been a defining factor in my life, it has shaped how capable people thought I was, the way I dress and the way I value different components of my life. However, for me, my gender has also been a place of defiance

interested in things that were classified as “abnormal” for my gender, so I had to change them in order to fit the societal expectations set out for me. The biggest motivators of a child’s athletic participation are adults and his or her friends. My dad motivated me to participate in the sports that he wanted his son to partake in. So throughout the past 19 years of my life, I admit that I have been fitting into what my father learned that my gender has to do. I am an active athlete, have played men’s sports

Sociology 100, our class has learned and discussed about several sociological topics that have made me better understand some of the events occurring in our society today. One of these topics includes gender inequality and how the social construction of gender affects the lives of men and women every day. Gender inequality has made me fully understand that men and women are treated very differently in society. This is evident in the video, “The Fairer Sex” that we watched in class. This video demonstrated

the car. When my Grandma looked at me she shrieked and said, “What are you doing! Girls do not play in the mud and especially not with bugs, that’s for a little boy to do, not a little girl!” This is one of my first explicit memories of being taught gender roles. I never questioned why the characteristics that go with being a girl are so much different than the characteristics that go with being a boy. I assumed that what I was taught before I was even born was right, and there wasn’t anything wrong

Project #1 My family was very traditional raising my sisters and I. My dad was outnumbered four to one, with my two younger sisters, myself and my mom. When I think about how I performed gender as kid I immediately think of how my parents dressed us up and how we were supposed to behave when we were little. As well as the toys I played with and who was in my social circle during elementary school. On Sundays when we went to church my parents, especially my dad, made sure my sisters and I only

Gender As a child, I never saw being a female as a detriment and yet now I realize that it was such an obsticle. However that apparent detriment has not shaped my identity, but rather my triumphs over what people perceived that I could or could not do has molded me to be the person I am today. I was encouraged by both parents to do whatever I wanted, and yet I recognize how my own father treated me differently because I was a girl. There were many things that I was never taught how to do because

those around me. I cared a little more, saw things in a different light. Things like gender roles and society’s norms did not make sense to me. I could not grasp the concept that boys had to do things a certain way and girls had to do some things a different way. Growing up in my household it was always, “ Quit being so sensitive. “ or “ Man up”. I did not even know what that meant. From my understanding, gender did not determine the type of person you were and neither did your sexuality. People

Identity is the most significant dimension of my gender because it is essentially the way we identify ourselves as. I identify myself as a female, biologically I was born a female and I express myself as a female. In addition, my body and expression are dimensions of my gender that are salient. My body and gender go beyond just reproducing, the way I experience my gender is neurological, cellular and endocrinological. It is through our bodies that society define how feminine or masculine we are.

When we are born, we're led to live our lives doing things based on our gender. We aren't allowed to do things that are meant for the opposite gender, for we are viewed as an abnormal person by others. We receive cruel attitude from individuals if we do not live up to the expectations we have based on our gender. As a little girl, I grew up loving to playing with toys and sports that were labeled for boys. This led me to become fascinated with basketball and had asked my grandparents to sign me up

Throughout today’s society, there are multiple views and opinions on whether or not there are more than two genders or if gender is even just a social construct. Each person has their own individual preference on how they express their gender. Therefore, we can no longer assume what someone identifies as just by looking at them. Over the years I have learned more about gender expression and gender identity as I gained friends who were homosexual as well as transgender. I feel as if I was introduced to