Judith Butler Gender Essay

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I agree with this for many reasons I understand the other side of it and agree that biologically there is only two genders. That is not the point Judith is trying to get across, she is trying to say that gender doesn’t define us and that we ourselves are our own person and we should be proud of that and not try to fit the overused mold society has created for us. Socially we are told from a young age how to act based off of our gender we told what to do and mentally that sticks with us. Watching TV you can see very easily how gender is seen in our society the men are supposed to be strong rugged and always ready to protect the frail weak women. That’s just not realistic. Women can be strong and men can be frail it’s not based off gender it's …show more content…

Judith Butler believes that gender should be seen as a fluid variable which shifts and changes in different contexts and at different times theory.org. Gender is something that should describe you as a person it shouldn’t be something that we aim to fit into. If you don't like manly things like “football”, “fighting”, and “hunting” you’re not any less of a man you just have different opinions towards things. If you don’t like wearing dresses and cleaning the house you’re no less womanly it’s just how you feel about it and that is something that we shouldn’t use in society to define people stereotyping people into enjoying and being better in certain tasks can lead to many harmful things for society. For over hundreds of years we lived with the idea that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote or even have regular jobs and now today women are still only making 73 cents to every dollar a man makes aauw.org. That can be attributed to the many years of believing women shouldn’t even go to school and have a proper education that’s something that set our whole nation back hundreds of years think about how much progress could be obtained if the smart women of our time were allowed to work with great men and share their ideas there’s no way to tell but we could be far ahead in the research we have

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