1. How do people tend to express gender on campus?
During one of the in class assignments, I had the opportunity to observe individuals who visited the campus Starbucks. It was observed, that females and males express their gender by the way they address. For example, when comparing both genders when wearing shorts, females wore shorter shorts than males. Females seem to wear tighter clothing than men. Another way people express their gender, is by the way they walk. Men tend to walk more stiff, with less movement, while females tend to walk loosely with their hips.
2. What gender roles to you see most prevalently in CSUSM’s culture?
Some of the gender roles that I commonly see on campus, would be door holding. For example, if a male is about to enter a building and theirs a female behind him, he will open the door for her. Another role that I noticed, while I did my observation at Starbucks, was that if a female and a male are walking together to get coffee, the male will allow the female to enter the building first. 3. What types of behaviors do you think are particularly gendered in our campus culture?
One of the behaviors that I believe is gendered in our campus is how females and males sit and the actions
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Some of the words and phrases I have heard, have been “You asshole”, “f*cker”, “ah you b*tch”, “sh*t”, and “f*ck”. Some of these words have commonly been used when people drop something, or hurt themselves in any way. Other times, individuals used some of the phrases towards someone else, in a manner of playing around. Instead of decreasing come one as mean, they used the words, “asshole” or “f*cker”. I think the only word that has been gender biased on campus, has been the word “b*tch”, as it shames or commonly related to female gender compared to the male gender. I don’t think I have personally experienced someone using homonormative terms on
“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” as the famous saying of John Gray goes. It is believed men and women are nothing alike in almost every aspect. In Deborah Tannen’s essay “Gender in the classroom: Teacher’s Classroom Strategies Should Recognize that Men and Women Use Language Differently” she focused on how men and women differ when it comes to communicating, with emphasis on how it effects to how men and women behave in the classroom.
The way I view gender is a way to express yourself. ...Gender is just a doorway, and so is sexuality, race and age.
All over the world Masculinity has many different cultural definitions. Depending where someone is from, and what they were brought up to believe, defines what the term “masculinity” entails. Different Social institutions all over the United States, such as the military, sports, clubs, and fraternities, have been constructing their interpretation of masculinity. One major social institution that is active in thousands of Universities across the United States is campus fraternities. Campus fraternities create their own sense of masculinity by generating certain requirements and characteristics a man must hold in order to represent them as a part of their fraternity.
A part that someone or something has in a particular activity or situation, and 3. The part that someone has in a family, society, or other group (The New International Webster’s Dictionary). The particular definition of role that really fits in with the definition of gender role is “the part that someone has in a family, society, or other group”. This definition is the most accurate because gender roles are basically guidelines or behaviors for a particular gender that are deemed acceptable by society. Like stated earlier, gender roles in the 50’s were very strict and narrow-minded.
Each gender has its little tells and associations, the movie Victor Victoria depicts gender cues very accurately and well. Victor Victoria is a movie about a woman, who wants to have a successful singing career, but in order to do so she must pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman. This movie takes place in the 1930’s in Paris, France during the winter time. One gender cue I noticed was how women and men wore their coats differently. Men tended to wear their coats over their shoulders without putting their arms in the sleeves and women, wore their coats a help their coats together with their hand placed close to their chest, indicating they feel cold. Another gender cues I noticed was when Carole "Toddy" Todd, played by Robert Preston,
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The clusters of social definitions used to identify persons by gender are collectively known as “femininity” and “masculinity.” Masculine characteristics are used to identify persons as males, while feminine ones are used as signifiers for femaleness. People use femininity or masculinity to claim and communicate their membership in their assigned, or chosen, sex or gender. Others recognize our sex or gender more on the basis of these characteristics than on the basis of sex characteristics, which are usually largely covered by clothing in daily life.
Suggested roles of all types set the stage for how human beings perceive their life should be. Gender roles are one of the most dangerous roles that society faces today. With all of the controversy applied to male vs. female dominance in households, and in the workplace, there seems to be an argument either way. In the essay, “Men as Success Objects”, the author Warren Farrell explains this threat of society as a whole. Farrell explains the difference of men and women growing up and how they believe their role in society to be. He justifies that it doesn’t just appear in marriage, but in the earliest stages of life. Similarly, in the essay “Roles of Sexes”, real life applications are explored in two different novels. The synthesis between these two essays proves how prevalent roles are in even the smallest part of a concept and how it is relatively an inevitable subject.
Society places ideas concerning proper behaviors regarding gender roles. Over the years, I noticed that society's rules and expectations for men and women are very different. Men have standards and specific career goals that we must live up to according to how others judge.
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A few manifest functions of gender roles are to keep fine lines within jobs and duties, which brings up the idea of the glass escalator, glass ceiling and pink collar ghettos. A few latent functions are extreme inequalities which include sexism and stereotypes. I once saw in a television show, a man said to his daughter “you have to work five times as hard as a man to earn half of the credit”.
Socially constructed gender roles have a large impact on the society that we are bred in. Boys and girls are told from a young age what is considered normal for each of them based on what sex they were assigned. Girls are immediately told to be shy but not rude, love the color pink, and clean and cook in preparation of the man they are inevitably going to marry. Boys are told to ‘be men’ and never cry in the presence of anyone, emotions are for girls and anything less would be seen as merely weak. Parents usually prescribe their own upbringings to how their children should be brought up; girls are constantly reminded to watch how they come off to people. Girls must clean and cook, but never show frustration, smile even if she’s scared of unfamiliar
The gender role approach focuses on learning behaviors that are defined as masculine or feminine. Gender roles are influenced early in life. Children quickly learn that they are girls or boys and act accordingly. Gender roles make women unequal. For example, issues such as whether women should serve in the military, or men should be eligible for family benefits are questions arising out of gender roles.
Gender, on the other hand, refers to the sociological differences between male and female. This teaches males and females to behave in various ways due to socialisation (Browne, 1998). Example: masculinity and femininity. Girls are supposed to show their femininity by being non-competitive, sensitive, dependent, attractive and placid. If and when some girls don’t succeed in keeping this image, they will be referred to as a tomboy.
Gender is the psychological characteristics and social categories that are created by human culture. Doing gender is the concept that humans express their gender when they interact with one another. Messages about how a male or female is supposed to act come from many different places. Schools, parents, and friends can influence a person. Another major factor that influences millions of impressionable females and males is television. Not only does the television teach each sex how to act, it also shows how one sex should expect the other sex to act. In the current television broadcasting, stereotypical behavior goes from programming for the very small to adult audiences. In this broadcasting range, females are portrayed as motherly, passive and innocent, sex objects, or they are overlooked completely or seen as unimportant entities.